Design for Health Materials:
Planning Information Sheets: This series give examples on how to incorporate health into policy and planning efforts. While the sheets are arranged by health topic, planners can also quickly locate many common planning concepts and tools.
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Key Question Research Summaries: this series provides short and digestible summaries about what research says and doesn't say on topics relevant to the comprehensive planning process
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Plan Case Studies: These studies provide an in-depth review of how King County , Washington and Fremantle , Western Australia are integrating physical activity into their communities.
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Health Impact Assessments: This series offers a variety of HIA tools to identify and evaluate the effects of policies, plans, programs, and design on health.
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Comprehensive Plan Review Checklists: These Plan Review Checklists summarize the key points of the Design for Health background and health impact assessment materials. Topics match the plan elements required by the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council.
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Financing Health and Planning Initiatives: This page provides a list of funding sources that communities can use to help incorporate health into planning through the implementation process. The page is broken down by local, state, federal and private sources of funding.
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Event Presentations: DFH held an event series in Minnesota that featured national and international experts. Presentations are available on topics such as: safe routes to school and school citing, comprehensive planning for healthy communities, safety and public places, active transportationand facility planning, and others.
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Participation and Planning for Health: How can the public participate in planning for health? Which Design for Health tools can be used in participation processes or modified for such use? This fact sheet deals with these two issues in turn.
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Communicating about Health Impacts (80 KB): Health impact assessment (HIA) tools produce a large amount of useful information about various health topics, the location of health impacts, and who is affected by a project, plan, or policy. This fact sheet presents practical ideas for presenting information about the HIA process and the findings of HIA studies to a variety of audiences.
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Topical planning guides: These guides provide information about the following topics: how to plan for special populations, how to finance health and planning initiatives, how to use DFH tools in participation process, and how to locate research about health topics.
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Metropolitan Council and Health Planning Matrix: This matrix is from the Planning Information Sheet: Integrating Health into Comprehensive Planning, and it shows where certain health topics can be covered within the comprehensive plan elements.
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Places in Minnesota: BCBSMN has funded 14 communities to address public health issues in their comprehensive plan updates for 2008, and DFH includes information about each community.
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Image Slideshows: provide easily accessible photographs to illustrate key health issues
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Example Plans: This section provides a few overall exemplary plans as well as links to some of the plans highlighted in our Information Sheets, organized by health topic.
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