Fact Sheets
Planning for Healthy Places has developed several fact sheets that complement the material in our toolkits. Advocates, practitioners, and community members can use fact sheets to inform their own work and to develop cross-disciplinary relationships.
For Community Residents, Advocates, and Practitioners
English: How to make healthy changes in your neighborhood
Spanish / Español :- Cómo hacer cambios saludables
en su comunidad
Now in English and Spanish, this fact sheet discusses "8 steps to get more fruits and vegetables in your neighborhood," explaining how general plans can set the "ground rules" for where grocery stores, farmers markets, and other sources of healthy fruits and vegetables are located. This fact sheet will be particularly helpful for those who work or live in low-income communities which may not have easy access to healthy food choices in their neighborhoods. It is a great resource for community members who want to know how to make healthy changes in their own neighborhoods!
To learn more about making healthy neighborhood changes, visit the Network for a Healthy California's Champions for Change website.
For Physicians and Health Care Practitioners
The medical community has an important role to play in participating in decision-making processes about land use and the built environment. The following fact sheets are designed to provide talking points for physicians and health care practitioners on specific built environment topics (although they provide information that public health advocates and practitioners more broadly may find useful).
Complete Streets Talking Points
Safe Routes to School Talking Points
For Planners and Public Health Practitioners : Research on Land Use and Health from Two Different Perspectives
(From How to Create and Implement Healthy General Plans)
These fact sheets summarize
research linking health outcomes to the built environment : one for
health practitioners and advocates, in which the research is categorized
according to public health issue (e.g., injury prevention, access to healthy
food); and one for planners, in which the research is categorized by land
use issue (e.g., density, street connectivity). The information is meant to
provide rationale to support built environment policy change and to serve as a discussion tool when developing connections between public health
practitioners and planners, not as a comprehensive summary of the literature
to date. For more information, see Planning for Healthy Places' toolkit on creating and implementing healthy general plans.
The Health Perspective on Planning: Built Environments as Determinants of Health
The Planning Perspective on Health: Community Health as a Goal of Good Design