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How to Learn About the Basics of Healthy Community Planning
Linking health and planning requires learning about (at least) two areas. Public health folks are often confused about planning and planners have a lot to learn about health. There are a number of...
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Resources: Planning and Active Living
Active living, the idea that it’s good to build exercise into daily life, has been big news in planning for a while but I still get questions about how to incorporate active living into plans. A decade...
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Tools: What is a Rapid HIA?
On the face of it Rapid HIAs are quick, but that’s not the whole story. A rapid HIA while faster than a full, environmental impact assessment-style HIA, still takes some time. It is also different to...
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Visuals: What Does a Rapid HIA Look Like?
This blog has dealt earlier with the logistics of doing an HIA but what does a workshop look like? One source is the Arden Hills Healthy City Planning Workshop Summary Report Appendices. This document...
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Food Resources
Food stall in Stockholm. Photo: Ann Forsyth How people get access to healthy food is a concern to many. I’ve recently had some requests for information. Design for Health resources include an “issues...
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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:...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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