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Planning for Healthy Communities

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    • The Planning and Community Health Center focuses its efforts into projects and policies that prioritize active living, food systems, and health in all planning policies.

    • Diigo Tags: planning, community, health, cities

 

 

 

    • Across the U.S., local governments are beginning to include goals and objectives that promote public health into their comprehensive plans. These long-term plans impact how people make choices of where to live and how to get around, their ability to access healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity, and affect broader issues of social equity, clean air and water, and more.

    • Diigo Tags: planning, public, health, Healthy Cities, Healthy Communities, cities

 

 

 

    • Plan4Health is launching in neighborhoods, cities, and counties across the United States, funding work at the intersection of planning and public health. Anchored by American Planning Association (APA) chapters and American Public Health Association (APHA) affiliate members, Plan4Health supports creative partnerships to build sustainable, cross-sector coalitions. Each coalition is committed to increasing health equity through nutrition or physical activity. And, each coalition is dedicated to meeting the needs of residents where they live, work, or play.

    • Diigo Tags: public health, planning, Healthy Cities, Healthy Communities, equity

 

 

 

    • This toolkit can help planners, public health professionals, and the general public include health in the community planning process. Developed in partnership between the American Planning Association’s Planning and Community Health Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Community Design Initiative, the toolkit is composed of four elements that work together to achieve this goal:

    • Diigo Tags: Healthy Cities, toolkit, community design

 

 

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