building healthy communities
Healthy Communities Spring Summer 2009 Issue - Focus on Building Healthy Communities
OHCC’s 2009 Spring/Summer issue of Healthy Communities is now available.This issue entitled ”Building Healthy Communities” highlights the impacts of the built environment on health by examining a variety of built environment and related initiatives in Ontario. The articles explore a variety of topics including the urban forest, active transportation and health assessment tool. In addition, this issue offers excellent resources and tidbits related to the built environment.
Walk 21 Toronto 2007
Facilitating the Planning and Design of Healthy Communities
Pre-Conference Workshop
Monday October 1, 2007
Workshop Description and Speakers' Bios
Building Healthy Communities - Project Components
A searchable database of recent and current research in the areas of land-use planning, community design and their impact on the health of the population has been compiled.
Click here to download Linking Health and the Built Environment: A Literature Review
Building Healthy Communities Database
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Building Healthy Communities Database. This extensive database has been created from the information and resources gathered from the Healthy Communities and the Built Environment Project. The database contains initiatives, policies, programs and research related to Building Healthy Communities.
Building Healthy Communities Webinar
Learn about the connections between our health and our built communities by looking at the impacts of land use and transportation planning on health .
Building Healthy Communities Workshop
Health is determined by interactions among individual characteristics, social and economic factors and physical environments. How we plan our communities has a strong impact on our air, soil and water quality, safety, physical activity, stress and social capital, all of which affect our health.
Linking Health and the Built Environment: A Literature Review
One component of our Healthy Community and the Built Environment project is a literature review which was conducted by Civics Research Cooperative. It has been divided into several files.
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