General Health Issues
Design for Health (DFH) focuses on how planners and other related occupations can play a role in changing the built environment in ways that may influence human health. DFH covers the following health topics:
- Integrating Health into Comprehensive Planning
- Accessibility
- Air Quality
- Climate Change
- Environment and Housing Quality
- Food Access
- Healthcare Access
- Mental Health
- Noise
- Physical Activity
- Safety
- Social Capital
- Water Quality
Each topic includes DFH resources, such as Planning Information Sheets that provide examples of policy and plan implementation through commonly used planning strategies, image slideshows, digestible research summaries in the form of Key Questions, as well as a variety of other tools.
The DFH web site also provides information on a number of cross-cutting themes:
- Financing Health and Planning Initiatives
- Health Data
- Participation and Planning for Health
- Special Populations: including children, seniors, and people with low incomes
Design for Health materials also deal with a number of cross-cutting themes, particularly those related to vulnerable populations including children, seniors, and people with low incomes.
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