Public Health

eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

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This eConference brings together outstanding leaders, expert professionals and scholars renowned for their breadth of vision and depth of experience. Audio presentations, transcripts of keynote speeches, slides, and papers presented at the 48th IMCL Conference are now available online. This is an invaluable resource for your city, firm or university - insightful strategies, knowledge, and tools to guide healthy and child-friendly planning policies.
Start Date: 
02/25/2011
End Date: 
05/31/2011
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eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities
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eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

How Cities Use Parks to Improve Public Health

People value the time they spend in city parks, whether walking a dog, playing basketball, or having a picnic. Parks can provide measurable health benefits, from providing direct contact with nature and a cleaner environment, to opportunities for physical activity and social interaction.
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School Health Resource Database

This database includes smaple school district policies and information on physical activity.
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CDCynergy

This interactive CD-ROM is a training and decision making support tool designed to help CDC staff and public health professionals plan communication programs within a health context.
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LGEAN Toolbox

A web-based resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health. A collection of tools are designed to help users perform operations and calculations necessary to fulfill environmental reporting requirements or guide the development of a helpful environmental program.
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MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships)

MAPP is a community-wide strategic planning tool for improving community health. It helps communities prioritize public health issues and identify resources for addressing them.
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Increasing the Health Promotive Capacity of Human Environments

The authors present a conceptual framework that can be used to describe the extent to which environments promote health. They suggest that we consider which particular element of the environment has the greatest impact on an occupant's well being, the dimension of health impacted, and the dimensions within the environment that should be considered. Six guidelines for assessing the health promotive capacity are described.
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