Best Practices Series: Health Impact Assessments
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)
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Description
Healthy communities provide tremendous benefits by promoting physical activity in placing homes near community amenities to create walkable neighborhoods, helping restore, invigorate and sustain livable development patterns. Health Impact Assessments are a practical tool that can provide a structured process to determine a policy or project’s impact on health, and ensure that policy and project dollars are used efficiently to provide the greatest benefits to residents. This session will feature a discussion of Health Impact Assessments, and a presentation by a city official who used the assessments for their transportation plan. It will also include a detailed overview of the <Healthy Development Measurement Tool , a comprehensive evaluation metric to consider health needs in urban development plans and projects.
Presented By:
- · Kim Gilhuly – Project Director, <Human Impact Partners
- · Cynthia Scully – Senior Environmental Health Planner, San Francisco Department of Public Health
- · Amanda Thompson –Planning Director, City of Decatur, Georgia
Creating Healthy Communities Through Design
Tuesday, June 28th from 3:30-5:00pm (EST)
Can transformations in the design of our communities, streets, and buildings inspire people to be more physically active and make our communities healthier, sustainable, and more economically resilient? This webinar will introduce the concept of active design and explore how communities across the country are encouraging walking, bicycling, stair climbing, and active recreation. Designing our communities to encourage greater physical activity is a way to counteract the most pressing health, environmental, and economic challenges of our time – from the epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases like diabetes, to oil consumption and pollution from vehicle use, to spending on healthcare costs. Representatives from New York City, Augusta, Georgia, and the Mayors’ Institute on City Design will present health evidence and strategies included in the award-winning Active Design Guidelines (<www.nyc.gov/adg), as well as successes and lessons learned in creating healthier communities. We recommend downloading a free copy of the Active Design Guidelines prior to the webinar at <www.nyc.gov/adg.