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Planning and Community Health

APA's Planning and Community Health program provides tools and technical support to members so they can integrate health into planning practice at all levels. Areas of focus include active living, healthy eating, and health in all planning policies. We implement our aims through applied research, place-based investment, and education.

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URL: https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/

Healthy Communities Policy Guide

WebAPA's Healthy Communities Policy Guide identifies policy ideas for local, state, and federally elected officials aimed at improving community health and quality of living through …

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Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places

WebSustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans offers a framework with standards for creating livable, healthy communities in harmony with nature — …

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Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to …

WebIt outlines the five strategic points of intervention at which planners and public health professionals can coordinate their efforts: visioning and goal setting, plans and …

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Planning for Public Health

WebAcross the U.S., local governments are beginning to include goals and objectives that promote public health into their comprehensive plans. These long-term plans impact …

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Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities

WebInside this "Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities" report is a set of Healthy Planning Metrics that can be used to assess, measure, monitor, and report …

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Toolkit to Integrate Health and Equity Into Comprehensive Plans

WebSagar Shah, PhD, AICP Sagar Shah serves as the Manager of Research and Strategic Initiatives at the American Planning Association (APA), leveraging over 15 …

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Local Food Systems Key to Healthy, Resilient, Equitable Communities

WebThey also must shift use of municipal resources and adopt policy and regulation changes that support and encourage local and regional food systems, …

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Healthy Planning: An Evaluation of Comprehensive and …

WebThis report will detail the results and analysis of an evaluation of 18 comprehensive and four sustainability plans from communities across the United States to assess the extent to …

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Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food Systems

WebKimberley Hodgson Kimberley Hodgson, MURP, MS, AICP, RD is the founder of Cultivating Healthy Places, an international consulting business specializing in …

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Centering Equity in Planning and Public Health Collaborations

WebGovernment and policies — Equity planners should keep focused on upstream factors that affect health and use their knowledge of local government to help …

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Health Impact Assessment Toolkit for Planners

WebDownload. HIA is a rapidly growing field that positions decision makers to make better choices by bringing together scientific data, health expertise, and public input to identify …

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Emerging Trends in Regional Planning

WebJobs and housing are joined at the hip. Public health touches everything. Emerging Trends in Regional Planning finds common ground for planners without …

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Creative Placemaking for Community Health

WebCreative placemaking is when "partners from public, private, non-profit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a …

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Planning for the Needs of an Aging Population

WebThe experts' key takeaways. 1. The built environment is not designed with everyone in mind, forcing many to adjust. A subset of the population — adult men of …

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Racism Is a Public Health Crisis, Local Governments Declare

WebBy all accounts, Wisconsin was the first state where local governments declared racism a public health emergency. The first to do so was Milwaukee County last year, home to …

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