The cost of air pollution: Health impacts of road transport

Posted on: 5 June 2014
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Based on extensive new epidemiological evidence since the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, and OECD estimates of the Value of Statistical Life, this report provides evidence on the health impacts from air pollution and the related economic costs.

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Integrating health benefits into transport planning and policy: The case of Indore, India

Posted on: 7 May 2014
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The city of Indore, India, is a pilot city for the creation of a new Health Impact Assessment methodology that will be used to evaluate the potential impacts of transport developments and policies on city residents.

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Building for wellness: The business case

Posted on: 11 April 2014
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The economic benefits of building healthy places are outlined in a new publication from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The report examines the investment payback on incorporating amenities that promote health and wellness, how developers have pursued this objective, and the resulting market response. The report was prepared as part of ULI’s Building Healthy Places initiative, a two-year global program of work that seeks to raise awareness of the connections between health and the built environment, and to encourage the development of communities that are conducive to healthy living. Building for Wellness profiles 13 completed projects from around the world, including ten in the U.S., two in Asia Pacific and one in Europe, each representing one of three development strategies: renovation / redevelopment, new construction and master-planned communities.

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Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) Toolkit

Posted on: 8 April 2014
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The BIOPICCC Toolkit provides a series of resources to assist local authorities, partner organisations, and neighbourhood and community groups with local level resilience planning. Specifically, the resources are designed to support users to develop plans to make health and social care services for older people (aged 65 years and older) more resilient to the effects of extreme weather.

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Planning for healthy homes and communities: delivering healthy outcomes from new development. London, 11 March 2014

Posted on: 4 April 2014
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The seminar aimed to provide the building blocks for attendees on integrating health into new development. The range of issues facing each local authority area is different, and the seminar will highlight a number of issues and examine how to address them in planning sustainable new developments. Presentations are available online.

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Active by Design: Designing places for healthy lives

Posted on: 2 April 2014
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The Design Council in London have launched Active by Design, their new programme to design places for healthy lives. The first step in their launch is the release of their short guide publication which looks at how the design of buildings and public spaces in cities and towns can lead to positive changes in our lifestyle and ultimately to greater levels of physical activity. 

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The 11th International Conference on Urban Health. Manchester, 4-7 March 2014

Posted on: 25 March 2014
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The International Conference on Urban Health is considered to be the world’s premier international forum for information-exchange among urban health stakeholders and attracts delegates from across the world and from every kind of social, economical and ethnic background. Abstracts are available online. As part of this event, a group of participants grappled with the ways in which climate change will affect urban health, based on experiences of both the threats and opportunities of managing health risks in countries including India, Tanzania and Vietnam. Further information on this can be found here.

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Under the weather: Improving health, wellbeing and resilience in a changing climate

Posted on: 10 March 2014
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This document has been produced through a partnership between Department of Health, the Sustainable Development Unit, Public Health England, and the Environment Agency.  The toolkit aims to assist Health and Wellbeing Boards in integrating climate change adaptation into the local health economy. It also aims to  highlight how Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies can be used to achieve this aim, for the benefit of communities.

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The role of culture and leisure in improving health and wellbeing

Posted on: 7 March 2014
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A new report has been produced on behalf of the National Leisure & Culture Forum which reports the vital role of culture and leisure in improving health and well-being at the local authority level in England.

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Sustainable food in urban communities

Posted on: 25 February 2014
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The URBACT Thematic Network “Sustainable Food in Urban Communities” is a project involving 10 European cities that wish to grow, deliver and enjoy more sustainable food: they are looking for joint, effective and sustainable solutions to develop low-carbon and resource-efficient urban food systems. New outputs from the project are available online.

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