Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit

This 80-page toolkit is very comprehensive and describes how population health is influenced by the design of our neighbourhoods, housing, transportation systems, natural environments and food systems. It brings together research based key messages that correlate land-use planning decisions, impacts on the built environment and population health. Health professionals and others working to assist local governments and provide well-informed and credible recommendations will find this resource useful to draw from. Also available in French. The toolkit has been created to generate conversations and real-world adaptation by outlining a rationale for why the built environment is important for health. Although coming from a high-income country, the principles are widely relevant and can be adapted to many global situations.
 

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Toolkit | 2018

Language(s): English; French | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: BC Centre for Disease Control