The course provides strategies to understand and improve the health and wellbeing impacts of urban development through a new conceptual framework called THRIVES. It includes case studies of health-promoting housing and office buildings, large scale urban developments, and green infrastructure projects. The course is aimed at built environment and public health professionals and postgraduate students, […]
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The BlueHealth Toolbox is for planners, designers and other decision-makers responsible for blue spaces. The tools provide the means to make comparable assessments of urban blue spaces before and after any proposed changes. Such changes can include a wide range of interventions, from physical alterations to the environment to advertising campaigns that influence how people
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The WHO Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST) provides tools that countries and programmes can use to develop policy action plans for expanding clean household energy access and use. Created based on expert input, CHEST is intended to help professionals and policy-makers in the health and other sectors implement the recommendations found in the WHO
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This sourcebook provides the processes needed to harmonize urban and territorial planning with concern for human health and brings together these two vital professions. It also highlights additional tools, literature resources for decision-makers, urban leaders, planners and health professionals.
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This online course aims to familiarize participants with the process of conducting health impact assessments of projects, programs, and policies in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. By the end of this online course, participants will be able to: (i) Recognize the fundamentals of the HIA of public policies; (ii) Explain the steps of a high-quality HIA;
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