Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2019Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Promising Practices for Healthy Built Environments in Ontario's Public Health Units
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2020Action oriented
Personal interventions and risk communication on air pollution
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Initiative, Overview | 2021Action oriented
International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning: Report 2018-2020 – Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning 2018-2020
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
Design Guide, Overview | 2018Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Inclusive Healthy Places: A Guide to Inclusion & Health in Public Space: Learning Globally to Transform Locally
A participatory tool for evaluating and creating inclusive, healthy public places that support health equity. This framework supports inclusion to advance health equity through public spaces. The framework is built around four guiding principles for shaping and assessing public space projects. Only one...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: Gehl Institute
Design Guide, Overview | 2019Descriptive resource
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
