Public Health Webinar: The Built Environment

Posted by on June 24, 2013

(APHA) Webinar: Built Environment Approaches for Improving Community Health

On Thursday, May 9, 2013, the APHA hosted this webinar on the built environment. The built environment — our neighborhoods and communities where we live, learn, work and play — has an impact on physical activity levels, access to healthy food, transportation behaviors and, ultimately, health outcomes. This webinar featured two counties that have taken different approaches to changing the built environment around them in order to improve the health of their communities. Public health and development officials from Kane County, Ill. described their model for collaborative public policy planning and implementation and discussed the implementation of their 2040 Master Plan, which fully integrates public health into land use and transportation decisions. Representatives from Manatee County Health Department, Fla. discussed the development of a Complete Streets policy to reduce pedestrian and bicycling injuries and increase opportunities for biking and walking. To view the archived version of this webinar, as well as other past APHA webinars, click http://www.apha.org/advocacy/reports/webinars/default.htm