Design for Health is a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota that serves to bridge the gap between the emerging research base on community design and healthy living with the every-day realities of local government planning.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Prevention Minnesota is Blue Cross' long-term, statewide initiative to improve the health of Minnesotans by investing in prevention with a focus on the following goals: to significantly decrease the prevalence of tobacco use, to significantly decrease the prevalence of risk factors for heart disease, and to significantly decrease the prevalence of risk factors for cancer and increase early detection of cancer.


University of Minnesota, Hubert. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,
301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email designforhealth@umn.edu, Tel. (612) 626-4169, Fax. (612) 625-3513
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

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