Design Guide, Overview | 2021Descriptive Resources, Action Oriented
Healthy space next door: a toolkit for healthy community design
Exercise improves our physical and mental health. We are all well aware of this. Yet, only a handful of us incorporate exercise into our daily routine, mostly because our willpower struggles to compete with unavoidable obstacles to engaging in fun physical activities. A long commute from our house to...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO SEARO
Initiative, Overview, Toolkit, Video, Web Resource | 2024Descriptive Resources, Action Oriented
Active-Learning Resource Center
The Active-Learning Resource Center provides insights from experienced practitioners and practical guidance to drive greater health equity around the world. This is an open platform where practitioners, community leaders and city governments may connect, exchange ideas and grow the equitable development...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: International Society of Urban Health
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2022Action oriented
Urban design for health: inspiration for the use of urban design to promote physical activity and healthy diets in the WHO European Region
This report reflects on the ways in which urban space design plays a critical role in determininig the occurrence of non-communicable diseases. The paper initially highlights ways in which this occurs and then follows by raising tools and frameworks that encourage physical activity and healthy eating...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Overview | 2022Action oriented
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework is the harmonization of existing urban indices and tools, and allows for the integration of various dimensions of urban development. This also includes the measurement of progress in health in urban areas at different urban scales and areas—thereby allowing individuals...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
Overview | 2022Descriptive resource
Silver Hues: Building Age-Ready Cities. Japan background papers
This report is intended as a policy document that helps articulate the idea of age-readiness while building on the idea of age-friendliness. It highlights the varied trajectories of aging and urbanization and draws on the experiences of older and more urban countries to show how others can become age-ready....
Language(s): EN, Other | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: World Bank
