Briefing, Design Guide, Evidence, Toolkit | 2020Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing Excessive Urban Heat—With a Focus on Passive Measures
Cities are getting hotter as a result of growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch nearly every aspect of urban life. Protecting populations from extreme heat is one of the key resiliency and sustainability challenges of the...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit, Training, Web Resource | Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Resources for Practitioners
This webpage provides a list of resources for public health practitioners who are interested in further exploring tools, knowledges, and skills that will assist them in incorporating health in the process of urban and territorial planning. The webpage divides the resources into 5 sections, each expliciting...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
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
Evidence, Toolkit, Web Resource | 2019Action oriented
Mapping the Municipal Planning Process in Ontario: Opportunities for Public Health Input
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
