health

This publication provides an introduction to how transportation policies and plans influence health, both directly and indirectly and illustrates the elements of healthy, equitable transportation policy.

Read how land use and transportation solutions can help improve the neighborhood food environment and increase access to healthy, fresh foods for those who do not drive and rely on public transportation, walking or bicycling to meet their daily needs.

The pedestrian and bicycle information center houses resources and examples of policies that promote walking including form based codes, performance and incentive zoning, overlay districts, transit oriented development, and school siting guidelines.

This web-based toolkit is intended to help communities that are working to develop around transit make plans that will result in neighborhoods of affordable homes, shops, accessible job centers, and community services.

This information sheet provides insights for planners to understand how physical activity relates to the built environment and provides strategic ways to integrate pedestrian-friendly and bicycle-friendly environments into the planning and policy process.

This information sheet discusses a number of opportunities that planners have to address community noise issues through planning and policy approaches, and provides a number of practices that communities might use to more effectively prevent and/or mitigate existing and future sources of noise.

This information sheet provides insights for planners to understand how air quality relates to health and the built environment, and points to innovative approaches to planning for air quality.

The Design for Health (DFH) Comprehensive Plan and Ordinance Series provides planners information about opportunities to address health through the planning process. This information sheet discusses opportunities that planners have to address accessibility.

A research summary of the current evidence on walkable and bikeable communities and their influence on health and physical activity.

A handout on the basics of planning and design for safe, senior-friendly streets.

A collection of case studies developed by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP), covering pedestrian and bicycle projects and programs that include engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, planning, health promotion, and comprehensive safety initiatives.

Barriers to walking and solutions that provide pedestrian-friendly alternatives.

This checklist, created by the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), is designed to identify issues for the involved parties to consider when developing a joint use agreement to share existing facilities.

Find new ideas for local governments to support and encourage healthy eating.

The Joint Use Task Force website provides a resource hub to highlight success stories, promote lessons learned, and provide resources to support initiatives that include joint use as a way to increase opportunities for children and adults to be more physically active.

This information sheet provides insights for planners in understanding how mental health relates to the built environment and outlines innovative approaches to planning for mental health that communities can use to positively affect the mental health of their residents.

This information sheet looks at the challenges planners face in locating adequate healthcare facilities that are planned to meet the transportation and population needs of a community. Included in this publication are thresholds to guide the planning process and case summaries of successful examples.

This guide introduces the connections between active living and social equity and provides strategies for promoting active living and social equity in key issue areas including: walkability and pedestrian safety, bicycling, open space, land use, transportation, economic development, school-based strategies, and nutrition access.

Produced by NACO and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, this report showcases seven communities and highlights practical steps county officials and mayors can use in partnership with the private sector, health practitioners, and community groups to help residents of all ages live healthier, more fulfilling lives.

Presents how schools and local governments can successfully partner to improve health by collaborating on wellness policy implementation, Safe Routes to School programs, and joint-use agreements for before- and after-school programs.

AARP’s Livable Communities Team examines critical public policy issues that affect the ability of people to successfully age in their homes and communities by promoting the livability of communities through affordable and accessible housing and mobility options.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's manual describes the basic principles of safe and healthy housing in terms of the physiological, psychological, and protection needs that housing provides as well as twelve other chapters on topics from electricity to residential swimming pools to indoor air pollution.

NCHH promotes conducts research, provides a searchable clearinghouse of resources, and supports implementation of policies that encourage safe, decent, and sanitary housing as a means for preventing disease and injury.

This information sheet discusses a number of opportunities that planners have to address food issues through planning and policy approaches, by addressing challenges related to healthy food access and local food production.

This information sheet discusses a number of opportunities that planners have to address environment and housing issues through planning and policy approaches, specifically with regard to the effect brownfields and housing quality have on human physical, psychological, and social health.