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Healthy High Streets: Good place-making in an urban setting

This report synthesises the latest and most relevant evidence. Specifically, the report examines how important features of the high street can positively impact on social cohesion, and on mental and physical health. It provides street design principles. Good for making high streets more inclusive, safe and healthy and that promote social integration, particularly in areas […]

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Healthy Environments for Healthier People

Good as a reference on health protection. This work has evolved to achieve increasing relevance and recognition as the prevalence of environment and health in policy has grown in both global and European contexts. For example, an emerging impetus for its work is given by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in which health and

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Settlement patterns, urban form and sustainability: An evidence review

Chapters on the relationship between settlement patterns, urban form and: Economic productivity, Climate change, Public health, Ageing population. Useful for national governments.

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Bending the curve on urban diabetes: New research approaches and innovative interventions for tackling diabetes in your city

This briefing presents highlights from research and diabetes action pilots in eight cities worldwide. The approach demonstrates how urban planning needs to be embedded as a solution to this health challenge. The focus is obesity, the single most significant driver of diabetes. Pitched against an objective to hold the rise of diabetes prevalence to 10%

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Spatial Planning for Health: An Evidence Resource for Planning and Designing Healthier Places

The review identifies, critically appraises and summarizes existing review-level evidence of associations between the built and natural environment and health outcomes. The review is centred on five aspects of the built and natural environment: neighbourhood design, housing, healthier food, natural and sustainable environment, and transport. Arising from the English context, this resource would be valuable

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