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Planning for a healthy environment: Good practice guidance for green infrastructure and biodiversity
Posted on: 12 July 2012
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This guidance is designed to offer advice to planning practitioners on how green infrastructure and biodiversity can be enhanced and protected through the planning system. It summarises the latest policy drivers and distils the best of our current policy responses. It also sets out practical examples of successful projects and sources of further detailed information.
On the Pulse: housing routes to better health outcomes for older people
Posted on: 15 June 2012
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This is a new report launched by the National Housing Federation and supported by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network. The report features analysis of current health and care priorities and explores how housing associations can work with health and social care commissioners to: enable older people to manage changes in their health; help people live as independently as possible; and reduce the need for more costly care. The report features six case studies which describe some innovative solutions our members have developed.
Cities, health and well-being
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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The 2011 Urban Age Hong Kong conference, organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Alfred Herrhausen Society in partnership with the University of Hong Kong, brought together over 170 planners, architects, sociologists, medical doctors, public health experts and economists from 36 cities and 22 countries to help identify the routes through which new meanings, methods and interventions for health and well-being might be developed for greater effect in today’s cities. This report provides one entry point into the conference discussions, in addition to the videos, presentations and publications already available online.
From field to fork: The value of England’s food webs
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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A new national report from the Campaign to Protect Rural England finds that despite their critical importance to the health of our high streets, local economies and much loved landscapes, local food networks are under-recognised and poorly supported. Details of individual local food networks is also available.
Healthy design, creative safety: Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in undergraduate schools of architecture
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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Health and safety teaching should be integrated into design projects to be most effective, rather than taught as an abstract set of rules in isolation, according to new research published into the teaching of health and safety to undergraduate students of architecture. The report was produced on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by the University of Sheffield.
Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
Posted on: 31 May 2012
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Collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, has resulted in the second UCL Lancet Commission report. The report analyses how health outcomes are part of the complexity of urban processes, drawing attention to the part that urban planning can and should play in delivering health improvements through reshaping the urban fabric of our cities.
Transport planning for healthier lifestyles: A best practice guide
Posted on: 17 May 2012
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This guide, published by Transport for London, looks at how the NHS can best enable patients to access healthcare via public transport and to promote a healthy lifestyle with sustainable and active travel.
Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation
Posted on: 4 May 2012
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The Department of Health asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce guidance on local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation. This guidance aims to set out how people can be encouraged to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes. This will help meet public health and other goals (for instance, to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions). The recommendations cover: policy and planning; local programmes; and schools, workplaces and healthcare. Details of the consultation on the draft guidance and evidence reviews are available online.
Preparing for an ageing society: is the built environment fit for the future? Bristol, 25 April 2012
Posted on: 4 May 2012
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As a contribution to the European Year of Active Ageing and to mark World Health Day’s theme of Ageing and Health, this seminar considered what contribution the built environment can make to healthy and active ageing: Are our neighbourhoods and settlements fit for a fulfilling and active old age? How can the planning of the built environment support healthy ageing? What are the new opportunities for supporting healthier older people with the public health transition to local authorities? Presentations from the event are available online.
Investigating the potential health benefits of increasing cycling in the Cycling City and Towns
Posted on: 26 April 2012
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This research investigates the potential for delivering public health benefits through increasing cycling amongst different population groups. The results are relevant to local authorities who are making the case for investment in cycling, and considering how best to design schemes to realise the health benefits of cycling.
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