This report acts as both a toolkit as well as a compilation of evidence that display how the promising practices of public health units’ role in community design process have led to the achivement of better health outcomes. The paper demonstrates the relationship between the built environment’s impacts on health and how public health units […]
WHO convened an expert consultation of an extended group of experts from various regions and from governments, nongovernmental organizations and academia. This report summarizes the results of the expert consultation. The objectives of the consultation were to find consensus on the best ways to communicate potential risks related to air pollution to various audiences, including
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This report is intended as a tool to guide public health units in Ontairo and assist them in achieving community designs that ensure the protection and promotion of health. Although the report focuses on public health units in Ontario, valuable lessons and advice from the report can be applied to geographical zones beyond that of
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This report describes the mapping of training programmes in air pollution and health specifically for health workers, with analyses of their strengths and gaps according to nine criteria. A total of 18 training programmes were identified from an online survey disseminated to more than 400 health organizations and from interviews with experts and an extensive
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Although this document provides a broad guidelline on urban territorial planning, the report also contains a chapter on the importance of health integration as part of urban planning. The authors explicitly delineate how the health is collated within the guideline and also provide the readers a case-study of a participatory approach to building a coalition
