Design Guide, Evidence, Overview | 2021Action oriented | Descriptive resource
RICH Food, Smart City: How Building Reliable, Inclusive, Competitive, and Healthy Food Systems is Smart Policy for Urban Asia
Rich Food, Smart City provides new insights into the status of urban food policy and governance across Asian cities of all sizes and offers concrete illustrations of the many policies and programs that Asia’s cities can learn from and implement to improve food system outcomes. It argues that to effectively...
Language(s): EN, Other | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit, Training, Web Resource | Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Resources for Practitioners
This webpage provides a list of resources for public health practitioners who are interested in further exploring tools, knowledges, and skills that will assist them in incorporating health in the process of urban and territorial planning. The webpage divides the resources into 5 sections, each expliciting...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2019Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Promising Practices for Healthy Built Environments in Ontario's Public Health Units
This report acts as both a toolkit as well as a compilation of evidence that display how the promising practices of public health units' role in community design process have led to the achivement of better health outcomes. The paper demonstrates the relationship between the built environment's impacts...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2020Action oriented
Personal interventions and risk communication on air pollution
WHO convened an expert consultation of an extended group of experts from various regions and from governments, nongovernmental organizations and academia. This report summarizes the results of the expert consultation. The objectives of the consultation were to find consensus on the best ways to communicate...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Initiative, Overview | 2021Action oriented
International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning: Report 2018-2020 – Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning 2018-2020
Although this document provides a broad guidelline on urban territorial planning, the report also contains a chapter on the importance of health integration as part of urban planning. The authors explicitly delineate how the health is collated within the guideline and also provide the readers a case-study...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
