Public Health Professionals

Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning for improved health and well-being

This report collates the suggestions put forth by various urban health organizations on how to organize coordinated actions to incorporate health actors and implications in urban planning and development. The report emphasizes on the importance of adopting a systems approach to understanding urban-health challenges and provides examples of pilot projects which display evidence of urban […]

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Healthy Places Policy Toolkit

This webpage provides a list of resources that introduces and assists readers in understanding policies, engagement activities, advocacy approaches and supporting information for creating healthy places. Although the resources listed are targetted towards a Canadian population, the explicit inclusion of health as a lens in community planning towards a more health and equitable community design

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Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for walking and for cycling: Methods and user guide on physical activity, air pollution, injuries and carbon impact assessments

This guide provides an introduction to health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling. HEAT is an assessment tool which allows actors to perform economic evaluation of health effects of cycling and walking. In addition to the introduction and guidance on the usage of HEAT, the manual also provides evidence on the impact walking

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Environment, climate change and health for practitioners and actors guiding policy change

Environmental risks to health are responsible for a large fraction of the overall disease burden. Decision makers need to be aware of the most important environmental exposures, exposure-disease links and available options and solutions for creating a healthier environment. This course provides an introduction to environmental health, covering key facts, figures and available interventions on

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Connectivity for Human Capital: Realizing the Right to Education and Healthcare through Improved Public Transport in African Cities

The analytical outputs aim to ultimately inform the design of urban transport operations that are sufficiently tailored to realize the rights to education and healthcare by marginalized groups, with the intended long-term outcomes of improved development effectiveness and overall more streamlined reflection of the equal rights to education and healthcare in the international development organizations’

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