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Healthy Built Environments: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

Explore the significance of healthy built environments and their impact on physical, mental, and social well-being. Learn about the determinants of health, social and ecological factors, and the relationship between the built environment and health outcomes. Discover co-benefits and strategies for creating sustainable, health-promoting spaces. Join the RALA Training Session on May 31, 2017, to delve deeper into what it means to be truly healthy.

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Healthy Built Environments: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

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  1. Healthy Built Environments:Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice RALA Training Session May 31, 2017

  2. What Does it Mean to be Healthy? “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO 1948)

  3. The “Determinants” of Health Social Determinants: Ecological Determinants: Air Water Food Fuel and materials Protection from UV radiation Waste Recycling & detoxification Relatively stable & livable climate • Income and social status • Education and literacy • Employment/working conditions • Social & physical environments • Social support networks • Personal health practices and coping skills • Healthy child development • Biology and genetic endowment • Health services • Gender & culture Source: Canadian Public Health Association Discussion Paper May 2015 Source: Public Health Agency of Canada website 2016

  4. Population Health Model Figure Source: New Brunswick Health Council, My Community at a Glance, 2014

  5. What is the Built Environment? Human-made or modified physical surroundings in which people live, work, learn and play. Adapted from: British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority

  6. The Relationship Between the Built Environment and Health

  7. Why does the Built Environment matter? THE 19th CENTURY: THE 21st CENTURY: Infectious Diseases Chronic Diseases

  8. How Planning and Design Affect Health Planning and investment policies (Acts & Regulations, provincial initiatives, regional and municipal plans, zoning and development rules) Urban form patterns (density mix, transport options, access to, and location of, parks and schools) Individual behaviour (amount of walking/biking, social isolation, diet choices, recreation & physical activity) Ripple Effect Population health impacts (chronic illness, pollution exposure, traffic accidents, social cohesion) Adapted from: Frank, Kavage & Litman 2006

  9. The Built Environment: Physical Activity

  10. The Built Environment: Obesity

  11. The Built Environment: Chronic Diseases • Heart disease • Stroke • High blood pressure • Various cancers • Osteoarthritis • Kidney disease • Diabetes (Type II) Figure Source: NB Health Council June 2016

  12. The Built Environment: Access

  13. The Built Environment: Nutrition/Diet

  14. The Built Environment: Social Interaction

  15. The Built Environment: Injuries & Safety

  16. The Built Environment and Air Pollution

  17. The Built Environment and Water Quality and Quantity

  18. Healthy Built Environments

  19. What are Co-Benefits? Positive outcomes beyond those expected positive health benefits of designing and implementing healthy built environment initiatives.

  20. Co-Benefits of Healthy Built Environments

  21. Thank You Questions?

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