Healthy municipalities, safe communities

Communities Creating Healthy Environments: improving access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.

The childhood obesity epidemic is a public health crisis that is having a particularly detrimental effect in racial and ethnic populations and in low-income communities across the U.S. Nationally, among youth ages 2 to 19, over 39% of Black and Latino and approximately 60% of American Indian youth are overweight or obese (Dalenius et al., 2012). Of the more than 9 million children from low-inco...

Healthy communities must also be sustainable communities.

The author contends that healthy communities must be both environmentally and socially sustainable, given that health depends on the quality of the built and natural environments, and that global change resulting from the industrial economy is affecting the web of life. He argues that suburban sprawl wastes scarce resources and disproportionately places those resources in the hands of suburban ...

Healthy Communities Program

Evaluation of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.

NSW Safe Communities Pilot Projects--evaluation methodology.

• develop and monitor measures of attitude and operational change, including: key informant– agency participation and participation change over the period of the project; changes in the incidence and form of local media knowledge and reporting; incorporation of the SafeComm project and/or its components into the business of local government; and level of integration of cross agency collaboratio...