- Feature #1 - What is Healthy Community Design?
- Feature #2 - Healthy Community Design Checklist
- Feature #3 - Recent Accomplishments
The way we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design integrates evidence-based health strategies into community planning, transportation, and land-use decisions.CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative is part of the National Center for Environmental Health's Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services. The Initiative works to improve public health by:
Healthy community design can improve people’s health by:
- • Linking public health surveillance with community design
decisions; - • Improving community design decisions through tools such
as Health Impact Assessment; - • Educating decision makers on the health impact of community design;
- • Building partnerships with community design decision makers and
their influencers; - • Conducting research to identify the links between health and
community design; and - • Translating research into best practices.
Healthy community design can improve people’s health by:
- • Increasing physical activity;
- • Reducing injury;
- • Increasing access to healthy food;
- • Improving air and water quality;
- • Minimizing the effects of climate change;
- • Decreasing mental health stresses;
- • Strengthening the social fabric of a community; and
- • Providing fair access to livelihood, education, and resources.
Key Topics Related to Community Design
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