Additional Resources
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Web Resources
- Information is Beautiful. David McCandless transforms data sets, many related to health, environment and government, into interesting and creative graphics. Our favorites include "Snake Oil? Scientific Evidence for Popular DietarySupplements" and "When Sea Levels Attack!". (**NEW ADDITION**)
- Gapminder This website allows you to select and compare health indcators across different locations, demographics and time periods. Another excellent tool for data visualization, data sets are illustrated as maps, graphs, and animations. (**NEW ADDITION**)
- Active Living Research. Contains information about research, grants, tools and resources for researchers, practitioners and community advocates whose work supports the growing evidece base on active living.
- Community Preventative Services. A resource that helps identify effective tools for improving different areas of public health, through policy, research, services, education and funding.
- Planning Complete Streets for the Aging of America. A report by the AARP on ways that our transportation systems will need to respond the aging of the American population.
- NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene Vital Statistics. Lists statistics for the city of New York as well as links to press releases and presentations given by the department.
- Research Design Connections. An online publication whose articles deal with "person-centered design" and environmental psychology.
- Informed Design. This website contains links to design research literature, organized by type of space, design topic and occupants/user types.
- Open Space. This site contains links to publications, literature reviews and research projects that relate to this organization's goal of promoting inclusive access to outdoor environments.
- Therapeutic Landscapes Network. A wide-ranging source of information on therapeutic landscapes, this site discusses the importance of landscapes in promoting well-being and health, with a listing of many designers and landscapes that show this function of the built environment, as well as external resources and accessible recommendations for people new to therapeutic landscapes.
- The University of the West of England (UWE) Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment. This site features links to case studies, news and current research in public health, environmental science and planning, with an emphasis on the integration of policy and delivery at national and international levels.
- WHO Healthy Cities Network. Three core themes: caring and supportive environments, healthy living and healthy urban design guide this WHO initiative which creates a network among European cities already committted to healthy cities and offers resources and tools to cities who seek to join.
- The Green Guide for Healthcare."The Green Guide for Health Care is a best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry."
- Choosing Visualization for Transportation. The Federal Transit Admisitration's Public Transportation Participation Pilot (PTPP) program funded this site as a "one-stop resources for learning about and selecting visualization tools for effective public participation."
- County Health Rankings. This website provides 2010 County Health Rankings with a variety of data points including health outcomes (mortality and morbidity) and health factors (health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment).
- Community Toolbox. This website provides free information and training on how to build health communities.
- Walk Score. This website ranks the walkability of neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities.
- Health and Safety Information on Household Products. Provides information on cleaning products that have low health-risk scores as compiled by the National Institutes of Health, ranking products from 0 (minimal health risk) through 4 (severe for health risk).
Organizations
- AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (**NEW ADDITION**)
- American Planning Association. Healthy Communities Through Collaboration
- ASLA Healthcare & Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network
- The Center for Health Design
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health. Designing and Building Healthy Places, CDC
- Harvard School of Public Health. ICUPPH Web
- Design for Health
- Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
- European Center for Environment and Health (**NEW ADDITION**)
- Institute for Human Centered Design (**NEW ADDITION**)
- Resources—Interdisciplinary Consortium on Urban Planning and Public Health
- The National Academy of Environmental Design
- National Association of County and City Health Officials. Land Use Planning, Local Public Health Agency Topics
- PolicyLink
- Prevention Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research. Tools & Resources
- University of Minnesota. Design for Health
- University of Virginia. Built Environment and Health Research Group
Conferences
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Past Conferences of Interest
Videos
- 50 Excellent YouTube Videos About Urban Planning
- Taken from Democrablog "One of the biggest challenges of our modern world is how to use urban spaces to their best advantage. Public administrators and civil engineers have their work cut out for them. Urban planning requires thoughtful decisions about how to use city space, and how to create cityscapes that serve people, as well as serve function. If you are interested in public administration, and learning more about urban planning, you can watch these 50 YouTube videos that address urban planning."
- Charley in New Town (1948)
- This animated film presents Britain's 'everyman' character, Charley, narrating his town's transition from a smog-filled, industrial community with long commutes to an area of mixed-use buildings, green open space and clean air. (8 minutes)
- Pair this video with a history of planning and public health lecture.
- And the Band Played On (1993)
- An excellent film adapted from Randy Shilts's book by the same title. The movie presents the social, cultural and poilitical reaction to the emergence of AIDS in America.
- This is a great resource when paired with a public health policy or ethics topic.
- Super Size Me (2003)
- "Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days straight. This film confronts issues of corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.
- The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- This film chronicles the economic crisis created by the oil shortage in Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union. In particular, it examines the effects of global fossil fuel politics and economics on thier systems of food production and how the crisis prompted a shift from industiral agriculture to small, local farms in urban areas.
- California Newsreel
- Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
- International trade policy, multinational corporations, environmental and occupational health intersect in this film on the lives of female workers in Tijuanas maquiladoras. A good example of photo voice techniques, the filmmakers put the cameras in the hands of female laborers to tell this story of globalizaton and health on the US-Mexico border. (**NEW ADDITION**)
- The Beloved Community
- This film tells the story of a Canadian community and the health problems that stem from their location at the center of the Canadian petro-chemical industry. Issues of environmental justice, health, community organization and corporate and government (ir)responsibility are at the fore of this documentary. (**NEW ADDITION**)
- UnNatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick?
- This seven-part documentary series explores racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health. The episodes include: In Sickness and In Wealth (56 minutes), When the Bough Breaks (29 minutes), Becoming American (29 minutes), Bad Sugar (29 minutes), Place Matters (29 minutes), Collateral Damage (29 minutes), Not Just a Paycheck (30 minutes)
- Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Healthy places leading to healthy people: Community engagement improves health for all
- "This program will illustrate how the PACE-EH community engagement tool has helped communities clearly identify health, social and environmental problems driven by place-related elements within the community environment. It will highlight how this process has helped to focus community efforts and build coalitions for change across agencies and community groups for the overall public health and well-being of all citizens in a community."
- Basics of Healthy Community Design
- "Dr. Howard Frumkin, Director of NCEH/ATSDR discusses the benefits of walkable communities as they relate to health, the environment, and social interaction."
Webinars
- Advancing Health Equity: From Theory to Practice (University of Virginia, Virginia Department of Health, and the Virginia Public Health Association) (**NEW ADDITION**)
- Health Impact Assessment (HIA's) - Health Equity
- The ISM's and Health Equity: Understanding and AddressingRacism, Sexism, Classism and more...
- "Healthy People, Healthy Places" Webinar Series (Convergence Partnership) An archive of past webinar Power Point presentations whose subjects include: "Talking about Healthy People in Healthy Places: Linking Values to Policy and Environmental Changes," "The Art and Science of Evaluation: Sound Methods for Assessing Policy and Environmental Change," and "Successful Partnerships: Stratagies for Multi-Sector and Cross-Field Collaborations." (**NEW ADDITION**)