Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s NewPublicHealth blog published a series of infographics exploring the connections between our health and the places where we live, learn, work and play, View their infographic on education and health.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s NewPublicHealth blog published a series of infographics exploring the connections between our health and the places where we live, learn, work and play, View their infographic on transportation and health.
Read MoreHealth impact assessments (HIAs) allow policy-makers to consider how proposed policies that may seem unrelated to health would affect health, and could be used to improve it.
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Steady employment can provide the income, benefits and stability necessary for good health. Read a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issue brief on the links between stable, well-paying jobs and better health.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's NewPublicHealth blog published a series of infographics exploring the connections between our health and the places where we live, learn, work and play, View their infographic on employment and health.
Read MoreWe know that the design and operation of our communities significantly influence our health. But the health impacts of real estate development continue to operate largely as economic externalities: unmeasured, unregulated, and largely unconsidered.
Read MoreThe Network writes in Health Affairs on how measurement can help community development and health practitioners achieve shared goals.
Read MoreThe Health Impact Project is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers.
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A primer on the connections between community development and health.
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These maps illustrate how a short distance between two city neighborhoods can mean large disparities in life expectancy.
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Len Syme, considered by many to be one of the forefathers of social epidemiology, discusses how community developers may be the most important health interventionists of our time.
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This Winter 2013 special issue of the National Civic Review celebrates twenty-five years of Healthy Cities and Communities by looking at where this widespread movement started, what it has accomplished and its unfinished agenda.
Read MoreWe need a more coordinated and integrated approach among housing, environmental health, and public health agencies.
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Place Matters is a national initiative designed to build the capacity of leaders and communities around the country to identify and address social, economic, and environmental factors that shape health inequities.
Read MoreThis resource library provides an overview of opportunities to finance healthy homes through the healthcare system.
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