TY - JOUR
T1 - A joint urban planning and public health framework
T2 - Contributions to health impact assessment
AU - Northridge, Mary
AU - Sclar, Elliott
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - A joint urban planning and public health perspective is articulated here for use, in health impact assessment. Absent a blueprint for a coherent and supportive structure on which to test our thinking, we are bound to fall flat. Such a perspective is made necessary by the sheer number of people living in cities throughout the world, the need for explicit attention to land use and transportation systems as determinants of population health, and the dearth of useful indicators of the built environment for monitoring progress. If explicit attention is not paid to the overarching goals of equality and democracy, they have little if any chance of being realized in projects, programs, and policies that shape the built environment and therefore the public's health.
AB - A joint urban planning and public health perspective is articulated here for use, in health impact assessment. Absent a blueprint for a coherent and supportive structure on which to test our thinking, we are bound to fall flat. Such a perspective is made necessary by the sheer number of people living in cities throughout the world, the need for explicit attention to land use and transportation systems as determinants of population health, and the dearth of useful indicators of the built environment for monitoring progress. If explicit attention is not paid to the overarching goals of equality and democracy, they have little if any chance of being realized in projects, programs, and policies that shape the built environment and therefore the public's health.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.93.1.118
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.93.1.118
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12511400
AN - SCOPUS:0037222758
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 93
SP - 118
EP - 121
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 1
ER -