- Feature #1 - What is Healthy Community Design?
- Feature #2 - Healthy Community Design Checklist
- Feature #3 - Recent Accomplishments
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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