Aging, Health, and Environments
For those interested in health and aging, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is perhaps a surprising source of useful information. Their Aging Initiative has a useful web site and list serve, bot accessible at http://www.epa.gov/aging/index.htm. Topics covered include environmental health, aging and smart growth, and environmental activism for older people. It is well worth a […]
Collections of Tools for Measuring Active Transport
With growing interest in active transport practitioners and researchers have created a large number of tools to measure active transport behavior and environments. The following web sites provide lists or databases of such tools. If you want to measure AT, such sites can be a good place to start. Thye have been sponsored by such […]
DFH on Flickr
Design for Health’s photo collection on flickr has been expanding recently. Check out the photos through the tag cloud at http://www.flickr.com/photos/designforhealth/tags/. This is a picture of the image cloud–go to the URL above to find the actual clickable tags.
Visually Interesting HIAs
Those giving presentations mentioning HIAs are often looking for good visuals to go in the presentations. The Design for Health web site now has a list of visually interesting HIAs at http://www.designforhealth.net/resources/hiaexamples.html#vih (compiled by Inna Kitaychik). Some have photos but many have maps, plans, graphs, and charts. Page Ave HIA was led by Christy Hoehner and […]
WHO Healthy Cities
The WHO Healthy Cities Program has been around since the mid-1980s and but is not as well known in the United States as it perhaps should be. The program is focused on “health development through a process of political commitment, institutional change, capacity-building, partnership-based planning and innovative projects” (http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/activities/healthy-cities). Healthy city activities typically focus on […]
Design for Health on Flickr: Sets and Collections
Cyclist: Photo by Ann Forsyth The Design for Health photostream now has hundreds of photos organized into “sets” such as “pedestrians” or “markets” and collections such as “Landscape”. Hundreds more photos will be added in the coming month. Check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/designforhealth/
Design for Health on Flickr
Urban Agriculture in Beihai, China. Photo by Ann Forsyth. Design for Health now has a Flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/designforhealth/. It will eventually contain all the images now available in the DFH web site under image resources: http://designforhealth.net/resources/imageresources.html. However, we will gradually add others from around the world. Most images are by Ann Forsyth except […]
Research Summaries: Some Links
For practitioners interested in integrating health research into planning and design, the task can be daunting. There are many articles that touch on the topic of the connection between people, health, and place but with varying levels of relevance, research quality, and cost (and many can be quite expensive to those who don’t have university […]
UN Habitat Reports on Health
UN Habitat produces and distributes a large number of reports, many related to health with numerous publications on water infrastructure, social inclusion, disaster management, housing issues, and climate change. Although you can buy printed reports that isn’t always necessary as many can be found for free. Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban […]
What’s in a Name?
Plan available directly from the City of Bloomington Recently, I was looking at the Pew Health Impact Project web site and noticed a featured HIA: the Xcel Energy Corridor: http://www.healthimpactproject.org/resources#reports This is an excerpt from a plan featured on the Design for Health web site (one of the 19 Minnesota communities in Phase […]