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Use of Health Impact Assessment in the U.S.: 27 Case Studies, 1999–2007
American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 34(3): 241-256, 2008by: Andrew Dannenberg, Rajiv Bhatia, Brian ColeThis article reviews 27 Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) to assess their impact on planning and decision-making. -
Urban Planning and Health Services: Opportunities for Cooperation
Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 36(2): 82-95, 1970by: Bernard Frieden, James PetersThis article pushes health planners to incorporate urban planning data and methods into their practice. -
You Are Where You Shop: Grocery Store Locations, Weight, and Neighborhoods
American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 31(1): 10-17, 2006by: Sanae Inagami, Deborah Cohen, Brian FinchThis article explores the relationship between the location of grocery stores and body mass index (BMI). -
Health Impact Assessments: A Tool to Ensure That Health and Equity Are Considered in Transportation Policy and Systems
Get The Facts, 2011This fact sheet explains how health impact assessments (HIAs) can help produce better policy and systems. -
Data on Healthy Community Design
November 2015This fact sheet uses data to explain the benefits of healthy community design and shares how the CDC has created strategic partnerships to implement it nationally. -
Critical Connections: Transportation, Climate Change and Public Health
Get the Facts, 2010This fact sheet discusses how transportation systems contribute to climate change and how climate change harms public health. -
Designing and Building Healthy Places
Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series, November 2006This fact sheet defines health and healthy places and introduces the concept of healthy environments. -
Health Impact Assessment
Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series, July 2010This fact sheet introduces health impact assessment (HIA) as a useful tool for assessing projects and policies before implementation. -
Health Issues Related to Community Design
Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series, March 2007This fact sheet lists and describes 11 health issues related to community design. -
Healthy Community Design
Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series, June 2008This fact sheet defines healthy community design and shares some of its benefits and principles. -
Tools to Assess Health Impacts of Land-Use Policies and Programs: An Introduction to Health Impact Assessment and Evaluation for Land-Use Agencies
Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series, September 2008This fact sheet shares how health impact assessment and evaluation can improve public decision making. -
Public Health and Equity: Promote Environmental Justice and Equity Principles in Transportation Policy
Get the Facts, 2011This fact sheet urges planners and policy makers to address environmental justice and equity in transportation policy at the federal level. -
The Relationship Between Community Development and Health
2016This fact sheet is an infographic that shows how economic development, infrastructure, community organizing, and access to resources influence health. -
Public Transportation: A Link to Better Health and Equity
Get the Facts, 2012This fact sheet reveals the health and equity benefits of public transportation system improvements. -
Links Between Housing and Health
March 2016This fact sheet is an infographic that describes how health is influenced by housing quality, affordability, community, and location. -
Transportation Access and Quality Affect Health
2018This fact sheet is an infographic that shows how infrastructure, transit, emissions, and safety influence health. -
Case Study: Nashville, TN, Prioritizing Public Health Benefits Through Better Project Evaluation
September 2016This case study looks at how the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization developed a points-based scoring process that incorporates health, social equity, and infrastructure usage to more effectively distribute funds. -
Case Study: Sacramento, CA, Promoting Health and Economic Prosperity Through Data-Driven Decision-Making
September 2016This case study shows how the Sacramento Area Council of Governments incorporated health and social equity into its project selection process, focusing more funding towards active transportation improvements. -
Case Study: Greensboro, NC, Healthy Competition
September 2016This case study explains how the Greensboro Metropolitan Planning Organization developed a data-driven evaluation process for distributing funds to local projects and for attracting funds from the state. -
Design and Methods of Natural Experiments in Transit and Physical Activity
December 2015by: Brian Saelens, Barbara Brown, Chad SpoonThis recorded webinar describes the process of conducting a pre-post study to assess the health impact of public transportation infrastructure projects. -
Resources for Promoting Healthy Built Environments: Case Studies
July 2010by: Erik Lees, Katy Amon, Heidi RedmanThis collection of case studies features eight health projects from six Canadian communities. -
Comprehensive Planning in Kansas: Incorporating Health Into Local Planning Efforts
June 2017by: Mary Marrow, Helen Schnoes, Jeffrey Crick, AICPThis recorded webinar features three panelists discussing how to plan for community health in Kansas. -
Healthy Communities Collaborative Webinar: Community Health Assessment Toolkit
October 2017by: Cailean Kok, AICP, Julia ResnickThis recorded webinar introduces community health needs assessment (CHNA) and the Community Health Assessment Toolkit developed by the Association for Community Health Improvement. -
Plan4Health Webinar: A Story of Health
October 2015by: Ted Schettler, Marla ValentiThis recorded webinar features A Story of Health, an e-book that uses case-based learning to highlight the connections between the environment and health. -
Improving Community Health Through Land Reuse and Development
January 2013by: Laurel Berman, Leann BingThis recorded webinar explains how communities can work with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to improve community health through land redevelopment. -
Designing and Planning for Healthy Cities: A Conversation With Richard Jackson, Tim Beatley and Georges Benjamin
October 2014by: Richard Jackson, Timothy Beatley, Georges BenjaminThis recorded webinar explores the relationship between public health and urban planning. -
Land Use Planning and Zoning for Public Health: Exploring Legal Issues
June 2017by: Chris Kochtitzky, Terri Harding, AICP, Melinda RamosThis recorded webinar examines the legal dimension of health planning. -
Plan4Health Webinar: Health Equity and Community Engagement
February 2016by: Tia TaylorThis recorded webinar shares how to engage the community to achieve health equity. -
Planners4Health Session One: Assessing the Healthy Communities Landscape
February 2017by: Carla Blackmar, Laura DierenfieldThis webinar provides an introduction to the healthy communities movement and shares ways to incorporate the agenda into local planning priorities. -
Planners4Health Session Five: Communications: Framing, Messaging, and Marketing
June 2017by: Laura GarrettThis recorded webinar explains how to effectively communicate a planning initiative focused on public health using social media and other marketing tools. -
Plan4Health Webinar: Health Impact Assessment With Urban Land Institute
May 2016by: Michelle Madeley, Sara HammerschmidtThis recorded webinar summarizes research on health impact assessments (HIAs) and the built environment. -
Planners4Health Session Six: Sustaining Momentum
January 2018by: Matthew WelkerThis recorded webinar shares how to sustain a healthy communities movement beyond one project or funding source. -
Plan4Health Webinar: Health Impact Assessments
July 2016by: Elizabeth Whitton, AICP, Sandra Cummings, Alex SmithThis recorded webinar introduces health impact assessments (HIAs) and shares three case studies from Marion County, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, and Boston, Massachusetts. -
Plan4Health Webinar: Landscape Performance for Healthy Communities
February 2017by: Arianna Koudounas, AICPThis recorded webinar features the Landscape Performance Series, a toolkit designed to support healthy and sustainable landscapes. -
Plan4Health Webinar: Toolkit for Rural Communities
February 2017by: Eastern Highlands Health DistrictThis webinar discusses the healthy communities movement in a rural context, highlighting the Healthy Communities Toolkit developed by the Eastern Highlands Health District. -
Planners4Health Session Three: Applying an Equity Lens
April 2017by: C. Anneta Arno, AICP, Martha Moore-MonroyThis recorded webinar advocates for an equity lens when designing and implementing a healthy communities initiative. -
Plan4Health: Creating Story Maps
January 2017by: Louis HillThis recorded webinar looks at how story maps can be used as a community engagement tool to improve public health. -
Planners4Health Webinar: What We Measure Matters — Metrics, Data, Sources, and Methodologies
2017by: Nisha Botchwey, Kimberly IrwinThis recorded webinar highlights the role of measurement and evaluation in the healthy communities movement. -
Creating Healthy Neighborhoods With Ann Forsyth
November 2017by: Elizabeth Hartig, Ann ForsythThis video features a conversation with Ann Forsyth about the book she co-authored with Emily Salomon and Laura Smead, Creating Healthy Neighborhoods: Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies. -
Planning and Community Health Webinar: Food Action Plans
April 2017by: Matthew Brown, Cheryl GraffagninoThis recorded webinar looks at how to create a food action plan to improve community health. -
Is the Built Environment Making Us Sick?
July 2013by: Anna Ricklin, AICP, Kelly Muellman, AICP, Eric Fladager, AICPThis video explains the negative health impacts of the built environment. -
Policy Development Efforts in Kansas to Support Public Health
August 2016by: Natasha FrostThis recorded webinar discusses how to plan for healthy eating, active living, and tobacco control in Kansas. -
Training Series: Healthy Built Environment for Health Professionals
June 2019This collection of recorded webinars examines multiple topics related to the built environment and public health. -
How Local Governments Can Build Healthy Communities
September 2013by: Julie Gordon, Derek PanteThis video explains how local governments can improve the health of their communities, as well as how they have done so historically. -
Improving Public Health Through Community Design
November 2017by: Gary GastonThis video explores the relationship between civic engagement, the built environment, and public health. -
What Does a Healthy City Mean to You?
2016by: Jordan Garrido, Richard Brown, Peggy NeuThis video shares responses from health professionals regarding what a healthy city means to them. -
Green Places, Play Spaces, Income, and Race: How Parks and Recreation Can Support Physical Activity Among Diverse and Underserved Populations
January 2012by: Andrew Mowen, Deborah Cohen, Deborah LouThis audio recording highlights the role of parks and recreation in promoting active living, especially in minority and low-income communities. -
Healthy Zoning
Fordham Urban Law Journal, 44(1): 33-57, 2017by: Matthew ParlowThis article looks at how local governments are using their regulatory and land use powers to address public health, a topic generally addressed by state and federal agencies. -
Promise Zones: Rebuilding Communities for Health Equity
November 2013by: Judith Bell, Autumn Saxton-Ross, Robert Sampson, AICPThis audio recording introduces the Obama Administration’s Promise Zones initiative and its connection to the health equity movement. -
The Built Environment and Mental Health
Journal of Urban Health, 80(4): 536-555, 2003by: Gary EvansThis article reviews literature to identify the direct and indirect mental health correlates of the built environment.