Briefing | 2018Descriptive resource
Healthy Environments for Healthier People
Good as a reference on health protection. This work has evolved to achieve increasing relevance and recognition as the prevalence of environment and health in policy has grown in both global and European contexts. For example, an emerging impetus for its work is given by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
Language(s): EN, FR, RS, Other | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: WHO EURO
Evidence | 2018Descriptive resource
Settlement patterns, urban form and sustainability: An evidence review
Chapters on the relationship between settlement patterns, urban form and: Economic productivity, Climate change, Public health, Ageing population. Useful for national governments. ...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: Royal Town Planning Institute
Briefing | 2018Descriptive resource
Health impact assessment can inform planning to promote public health
This brief introduces planning directors and staff as well as policy-makers to HIA, a process that brings public health considerations into decision-making. It describes how HIAs can add value across a range of topics and summarizes the findings from a review of 134 planning-related HIAs conducted...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Country | Author/Publisher: Health Impact Project & the American Planning Association
Design Guide | 2017Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Cities Alive: Designing for urban childhoods
This report highlights why and how city stakeholders should start to create child-friendly urban environments. It begins by highlighting the changing urban context, then sets out five core challenges of urban childhoods: traffic and pollution; high-rise living and urban sprawl; crime, social fears...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: ARUP
Briefing | 2017Descriptive resource
Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health
Broad and evidence-based briefing on environmental risk in childhood, focusing on specific diseases; it concludes with the information that reducing environmental risks could prevent a quarter of childhood deaths and disease. It also provides a review of the SDGs in relation to childhood risk and...
Language(s): EN, ES, FR, PT | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
