Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment.
This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions. Supported by examples of policy and approaches, it focuses on implementation and delivery, and sets out what is needed to achieve healthier environments within the parameters of legislative and policy frameworks.
It demonstrates how when we harness the art and science of public health spatial planning, can we begin to effect changes to the policies and decisions that shape population health.
Introduction
Part 1: Scene Setting
1. Evidence Case for Action
2. Policy and Professional Skills Context
3. Current State of Planning for Health
Part 2: Health, Wellbeing and Equity Impacts
4. Health in All Policies
5. Health Impact Assessment in Planning
6. Health in Other Impact Assessments
Part 3: Actions to Improve Practice
7. Health and Wellbeing in Planning Policy
8. Health and Wellbeing in Planning Decisions
9. Rise of the Public Health Spatial Planning Practitioner
Part 4: Health Benefits and Outcomes
10. Value and Outcomes
11. Securing Value
Concluding Reflections
Michael Chao-Jung Chang is a Chartered Fellow town planner and public health professional working at the intersection of spatial planning for health policy development and implementation at national and local levels.
Liz Green is a Consultant in Public Health / Programme Director for Health Impact Assessment, Public Health Wales and Visiting Professor at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments.
Carl Petrokofsky is a Consultant in Public Health who developed the Healthy Places programme at Public Health England and Visiting Professor at the WHO.
