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Lge-Elegbede J, Pilkington P, Bird EL, Gray S, Mindell JS, Chang M, Stimpson A, Gallagher D, Petrokofsky C. Exploring the views of planners and public health practitioners on integrating health evidence into spatial planning in England: a mixed-methods study. J Public Health (Oxf) 2020; 43:664-672. [PMID: 32424415 PMCID: PMC8458017 DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This study explored barriers and facilitators to integrating health evidence into spatial planning at local authority levels and examined the awareness and use of the Public Health England 'Spatial Planning for Health' resource. METHODS A sequential exploratory mixed-methods design utilized in-depth semi-structured interviews followed by an online survey of public health, planning and other built environment professionals in England. RESULTS Views from 19 individuals and 162 survey responses revealed high awareness and use of the Spatial Planning for Health resource, although public health professionals reported greater awareness and use than other professionals. Key barriers to evidence implementation included differences in interpretation and the use of 'evidence' between public health and planning professionals, lack of practical evidence to apply locally and lack of resource and staff capacity in local authorities. Key facilitators included integrating health into the design of local plans, articulating wider benefits to multiple stakeholders and simplifying presenting evidence (regarding language and accessibility). CONCLUSION The Spatial Planning for Health resource is a useful resource at local authority level. Further work is needed to maximize its use by built environment professionals. Public health teams need support, capacity and skills to ensure that local health and well-being priorities are integrated into local planning documents and decisions.
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- Janet Lge-Elegbede
- Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, The University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, The University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, The University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, The University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford BS16 1QY, UK
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- Healthy Places, Priorities and Programmes Division, Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London SE1 8UG, UK
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- Healthy Places, Priorities and Programmes Division, Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London SE1 8UG, UK
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- Healthy Places, Priorities and Programmes Division, Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London SE1 8UG, UK
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- Healthy Places, Priorities and Programmes Division, Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London SE1 8UG, UK
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Azzopardi-Muscat N, Brambilla A, Caracci F, Capolongo S. Synergies in Design and Health. The role of architects and urban health planners in tackling key contemporary public health challenges. ACTA BIO-MEDICA : ATENEI PARMENSIS 2020; 91:9-20. [PMID: 32275262 PMCID: PMC7975902 DOI: 10.23750/abm.v91i3-s.9414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Background and aim: Important public health improvements have been achieved over the past decades, but new challenges are emerging and progress cannot be taken for granted. Urban settlements host most of the global population, but they are also sources of several threats. The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of architects and planners in contributing to overcome these critical health challenges and propose strategic actions for collaboration with the public health workforce. Methods: Taking global trends and public health challenges as starting point, a scoping literature review has been conducted to illustrate the possible synergies that architecture and public health workforce should exploit to support population health improvement and tackle key public health challenges. Results: The built environment affects climate change and public health through the use of resources, site location, and green spaces. In architecture curricula, limited space is devoted to health and vice versa. There is an urgent need for recognition of the benefits of collaboration and cross-fertilisation between public health and planning workforce from local to global levels. Conclusion: Public health is evolving from a bio-medical to a socio-anthropological approach and architects/planners have fundamental roles; further collaboration, research and training are needed.
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- Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat
- University of Malta, Department of Health Services Management, Faculty of Health Science, Malta.
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department Architecture Built environment Construction engineering (ABC), Italy.
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- University of Palermo, Department of Health Promotion, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE), Italy.
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department Architecture Built environment Construction engineering (ABC), Italy.
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Marsh R, Pilkington P, Marco E, Rice L. Evaluating a workforce development programme: bringing public health into architecture education in England. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1736738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Rachael Marsh
- Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
- World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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- Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
- World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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- Faculty of Environment and Technology, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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- World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
- Faculty of Environment and Technology, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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Brambilla A, Buffoli M, Capolongo S. Measuring hospital qualities. A preliminary investigation on Health Impact Assessment possibilities for evaluating complex buildings. ACTA BIO-MEDICA : ATENEI PARMENSIS 2019; 90:54-63. [PMID: 31517890 PMCID: PMC7233655 DOI: 10.23750/abm.v90i9-s.8713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK World Health Organization states that is possible evaluating projects' qualities via Health Impact Assessment (HIA) but there are not specific HIA tools on hospital buildings assessment. Researchers show significant relationships between built environment and health. The research purpose is investigating how existing tools for healthcare building assessment are encouraging the development of possible hospital HIA evaluation. METHODS Based on previous works, 13 assessment tools have been included and a comparison of the criteria has been conducted to understand which the most prevalent topics are. The tools have been analyzed through literature, technical manuals and official websites. The authors identified 12 thematic categories where criteria from different tools have been clustered and discussed. RESULTS The most prevalent criteria are related to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) (20%). In the oldest tools the evaluation was mainly on technical features while in recent instruments several indicators are related to Architectural features and innovation (48%), Education (23%) and Food (11%). CONCLUSIONS There is growing interest in tools capable of addressing healthy hospitals encouraging IEQ, physical activity and healthy food provision related to occupants' health outcomes. This preliminary study set the basis for further development on hospital facility HIA tools.
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Sabey A, Bray I, Gray S. Building capacity to use and undertake applied health research: establishing a training programme for the health workforce in the West of England. Public Health 2019; 167:62-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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de Souza RJ, Gauvin L, Williams NC, Lear SA, Oliveira AP, Desai D, Corsi DJ, Subramanian SV, Rana A, Arora R, Booth GL, Razak F, Brook JR, Tu JV, Anand SS. Environmental health assessment of communities across Canada: contextual factors study of the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2018.1548071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- R. J. de Souza
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada
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- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- Département de médecine sociale et préventive, École de santé publique de l’université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
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- Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
- Sunnybrook Research Institute Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Pilkington P, Powell J, Davis A. Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health. Sports Med 2016; 46:997-1002. [PMID: 26842016 PMCID: PMC4920850 DOI: 10.1007/s40279-015-0469-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The important role that the environment plays in health and well-being is widely accepted, as is the impact that the built and natural environment can have on levels of physical activity. As levels of physical activity are a key determinant of health, promoting physical activity through actions to improve the environment is a priority for public health action. The challenge for public health is to ensure that the way the environment is shaped and transformed by a range of professionals, organisations and agencies, maximises health gain in relation to health, including physical activity. This article discusses how the public health profession can and should contribute to generating and disseminating evidence to inform decision-making processes for designing environments to promote physical activity. There are significant challenges to building and applying the evidence base in this area. These include the complex environments in which interventions operate, disciplinary differences in approaches to evidence generation and use, and the fact that public health has little responsibility for environmental change. However, case studies of best practice, presented in the article, offer a snapshot of how challenges can be overcome, to build an accessible evidence base and help to improve the environment for the promotion of physical activity.
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- Paul Pilkington
- Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Department of Health and Social Sciences, The University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK.
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- Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Department of Health and Social Sciences, The University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
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- Strategic Transport Division, Bristol City Council, Brunel House, Bristol, BS1 5UY, UK
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Grant M. European Healthy City Network Phase V: patterns emerging for healthy urban planning. Health Promot Int 2016; 30 Suppl 1:i54-i70. [PMID: 26069318 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dav033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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There is a tradition of planning cities and their infrastructure to successfully tackle communicable disease arising from urban development. Non-communicable disease follows a different course. Development brings in its wake a basket of adverse health and health equity outcomes that are proving difficult to tackle. In response, within Phase V of the European Healthy Cities Network, municipalities have implemented a range of policy and physical interventions using a settings approach. Owing to the time lag between physical interventions and health outcomes, this research interrogates city activity itself to develop better understanding. Self-reported city case studies and questionnaire data were analysed to reveal patterns using an inductive approach. Findings indicate that some categories of intervention, such as whole city planning and transport, have a systemic impact across the wider determinants of health. Addressing transferability and stakeholder understanding helped cities create conditions for successful outcomes. Cities had varying urban development approaches for tackling climate change. Improvements to current practice are discussed, including; a distinction between supply side and demand side in healthy urban planning; valuing co-benefits and developing integrative approaches to the evidence-base. This evaluative article is important for cities wanting to learn how to maximize benefits to public health through urban development and for researchers exploring, with a systemic approach, the experiences of European cities acting at the interface of urban development and public health. This article also provides recommendations for future phases of the WHO European Healthy Cities programme, posing questions to better address governance and equity in spatial planning.
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- Marcus Grant
- Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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Glanz K, Handy SL, Henderson KE, Slater SJ, Davis EL, Powell LM. Built environment assessment: Multidisciplinary perspectives. SSM Popul Health 2016; 2:24-31. [PMID: 29349125 PMCID: PMC5757767 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2015] [Revised: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Context As obesity has become increasingly widespread, scientists seek better ways to assess and modify built and social environments to positively impact health. The applicable methods and concepts draw on multiple disciplines and require collaboration and cross-learning. This paper describes the results of an expert team׳s analysis of how key disciplinary perspectives contribute to environmental context-based assessment related to obesity, identifies gaps, and suggests opportunities to encourage effective advances in this arena. Evidence acquisition A team of experts representing diverse disciplines convened in 2013 to discuss the contributions of their respective disciplines to assessing built environments relevant to obesity prevention. The disciplines include urban planning, public health nutrition, exercise science, physical activity research, public health and epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences, and economics. Each expert identified key concepts and measures from their discipline, and applications to built environment assessment and action. A selective review of published literature and internet-based information was conducted in 2013 and 2014. Evidence synthesis The key points that are highlighted in this article were identified in 2014–2015 through discussion, debate and consensus-building among the team of experts. Results focus on the various disciplines׳ perspectives and tools, recommendations, progress and gaps. Conclusions There has been significant progress in collaboration across key disciplines that contribute to studies of built environments and obesity, but important gaps remain. Using lessons from interprofessional education and team science, along with appreciation of and attention to other disciplines׳ contributions, can promote more effective cross-disciplinary collaboration in obesity prevention. Gaps in collaboration in studies of built environments and obesity remain. Lessons from interprofessional education can promote more effective collaboration. More attention to other disciplines’ contributions will yield greater health impact.
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- Karen Glanz
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine and School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 801 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis, 2130 Wickson Hall, Davis, CA 95616, United States
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- Health Policy and Administration and Institute for Health Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 492 Westside Research Office Building, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 813 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Health Policy and Administration and Institute for Health Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 448 Westside Research Office Building, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, United States
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Cross-sectoral workforce development: examining the intersection of public health and community design. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE 2013; 19:97-9. [PMID: 23169410 DOI: 10.1097/phh.0b013e3182788cff] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Barton H, Grant M. Urban planning for healthy cities. A review of the progress of the European Healthy Cities Programme. J Urban Health 2013; 90 Suppl 1:129-41. [PMID: 22714703 PMCID: PMC3764272 DOI: 10.1007/s11524-011-9649-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003-2008). The introduction sets out the general principle of HUP, identifying three levels or phases of health and planning integration. This leads on to a more specific analysis of the processes and substance of HUP, which provide criteria for assessment of progress. The assessment itself relies on two sources of data provided by the municipalities: the Annual Review Templates (ARTs) 2008 and the response to the Phase IV General Evaluation Questionnaire. The findings indicate that the evidence from different sources and questions in different sections are encouragingly consistent. The number of cities achieving a good level of understanding and activity in HUP has risen very substantially over the period. In particular, those achieving effective strategic integration of health and planning have increased. A key challenge for the future will be to develop planning frameworks which advance public health concerns in a spatial policy context driven often by market forces. A health in all policies approach could be valuable.
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- Hugh Barton
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK,
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Pilkington P, Marco E, Grant M, Orme J. Engaging a wider public health workforce for the future: a public health practitioner in residence approach. Public Health 2013; 127:427-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2012.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2011] [Revised: 09/28/2012] [Accepted: 12/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Health and the built environment: exploring foundations for a new interdisciplinary profession. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2012; 2012:958175. [PMID: 23028393 PMCID: PMC3457627 DOI: 10.1155/2012/958175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2012] [Revised: 04/18/2012] [Accepted: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The supportive role of the built environment for human health is a growing area of interdisciplinary research, evidence-based policy development, and related practice. Nevertheless, despite closely linked origins, the contemporary professions of public health and urban planning largely operate within the neoliberal framework of academic, political, and policy silos. A reinvigorated relationship between the two is fundamental to building and sustaining an effective “healthy built environment profession.” A recent comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on healthy built environments identified an emergent theme which we have termed “Professional Development.” This literature relates to the development of relationships between health and built environment professionals. It covers case studies illustrating good practice models for policy change, as well as ways professionals can work to translate research into policy. Intertwined with this empirical research is a dialogue on theoretical tensions emerging as health and built environment practitioners and researchers seek to establish mutual understanding and respect. The nature of evidence required to justify policy change, for example, has surfaced as an area of asynchrony between accepted disciplinary protocols. Our paper discusses this important body of research with a view to initiating and supporting the ongoing development of an interdisciplinary profession of healthy planning.
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Burton EJ, Mitchell L, Stride CB. Good places for ageing in place: development of objective built environment measures for investigating links with older people's wellbeing. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:839. [PMID: 22044518 PMCID: PMC3214925 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2011] [Accepted: 11/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is renewed interest in the role of the built environment in public health. Relatively little research to date investigates its impact on healthy ageing. Ageing in place has been adopted as a key strategy for coping with the challenges of longevity. What is needed is a better understanding of how individual characteristics of older people's residential environments (from front door to wider neighbourhood) contribute to their wellbeing, in order to provide the basis for evidence-based housing/urban design and development of interventions. This research aimed to develop a tool to objectively measure a large range of built environment characteristics, as the basis for a preliminary study of potential relationships with a number of 'place-related' functional, emotional and social wellbeing constructs. METHODS Through a review of urban design literature, design documents, and existing measures, a new tool, the NeDeCC (Neighbourhood Design Characteristics Checklist) was developed. It was piloted, refined, and its reliability validated through inter-rater tests. A range of place-related wellbeing constructs were identified and measured through interviews with 200 older people living in a wide variety of rural-urban environments and different types of housing in England. The NeDeCC was used to measure the residential environment of each participant, and significant bivariate relationships with wellbeing variables were identified. RESULTS The NeDeCC was found to have convincing face and construct validity and good inter-rater and test/retest reliability, though it would benefit from use of digital data sources such as Google Earth to eliminate the need for on-site survey. The significant relationships found in the study suggest that there may be characteristics of residential environments of potential relevance for older people's lives that have been overlooked in research to date, and that it may be worthwhile to question some of the assumptions about where and how older people want to live (e.g. villages seem to be positive). They also point to the importance of considering non-linear relationships. CONCLUSIONS The NeDeCC provides the basis for generation of evidence-based design guidance if it is used in prospective controlled studies or 'natural experiments' in the future. Ultimately, this will facilitate the creation of better places for ageing in place.
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- Elizabeth J Burton
- School of Engineering and School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Van Wave, TW, Scutchfield FD, Honoré PA. Recent Advances in Public Health Systems Research in the United States. Annu Rev Public Health 2010; 31:283-95. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.012809.103550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Timothy W. Van Wave,
- Office of the Chief of Public Health Practice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333,
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- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0003;
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- College of Health, University of Southern Mississippi, North Potomac, Maryland 20850;
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Teaching Public Health Networks in England: An innovative approach to building public health capacity and capability. Public Health 2009; 123:800-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2009] [Revised: 10/02/2009] [Accepted: 10/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sim F, Mackie P. Scaling up training and education for the Health Workforce--international collaboration. Public Health 2008; 122:539-40. [PMID: 18466938 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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