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Active Design Guidelines: promoting physical activity and health in design

“Citywide manual for modern city centres promoting physical activity and health. The resources might be used anywhere in the world, especially city centres with potential to promote physical activity and well-being through the design of the built environment. It might be useful for everyone involved with built environment design, including architects, planners, urban designers, transportation […]

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Addressing health of the urban poor in South-East Asia Region: challenges and opportunities

An overview of the health of the urban poor in Member States of the WHO South-East Asia Region focusing on health protection. It addresses the built environment determinants of health including land use, food access, housing, transport and domestic energy sources. The resource might be used for making the case for a strategic framework of

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Making the case for investment in the walking environment: A review of the evidence. Living Streets

In depth look at nine different interventions types that can be made in the walking environment to assess a wide range of social, economic and health benefits using a wide evidence base. Ten case studies, six from UK and one each from New York, Melbourne, Drachten and Copenhagen as used to illustrate good practice. Valuable

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Health in the green economy : health co-benefits of climate change mitigation – housing sector

This document is part of WHO’s Health in the green economy series. It describes how many climate change measures can be “win-wins” for people and the planet. These policies can yield large, immediate public health benefits while reducing the upward trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions. The document is very comprehensive with case studies, and applicable

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Urbanization and health: health equity and vulnerable populations: case studies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The preliminary evidence presented by these studies provides a powerful argument for city planners, municipal authorities, nongovernmental organizations and civil society in their efforts to improve urban health. It is intended to be used as an advocacy tool to sensitize policy-makers and parliamentarians to urban health issues and influence them to make positive changes. It

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