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February 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Robbyn Lewis, MPH Public Health Researcher Baltimore, MD What brought you to the conference? I came for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the reason that I’m even able to be here is because I was awarded a diversity scholarship. The second reason is tha ...
February 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The startling new National Association of Area Agencies on Aging report, "The Maturing of America," concludes that many communities are unprepared for their quickly aging populations, with "nowhere near the level of progress that has to be made to e ...
February 7, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A key group that presented at the New Partners for Smart Growth conference last week, was the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. Created in 2009, the Partnership is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop ...
February 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A major theme at last week's New Partners for Smart Growth Conference was "co-benefits." Many sectors and interests were represented at the conference and each took a different tack on the benefits of smart growth, or building communities so that th ...
February 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
San Bernardino, Calif., the 100th largest city in the U.S., has several other distinctions: compared to the rest of the state, it has the worst food index (ratio of unhealthy to healthy food index), an average life expectancy that is eight years low ...
February 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In his presentation, Burden shows photos of places that make you want to stay inside your house (or get in a car) rather than walk anywhere—deteriorating or no sidewalks, dangerous intersections built for cars that leave scarcely enough time for a h ...
February 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The great thing about the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference is the wide variety of different sectors, fields and perspectives represented. Each brings a different set of ideas, challenges and solutions to the discussion, from housing to trans ...
February 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
For lunch today, the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference set up a mini-farmers' market to give attendees access to healthy, sustainable, local and affordable food options. Among the most popular: fish tacos, hummus and curry and fresh fruits an ...
February 3, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy provides a new, health-in-all policies approach to prevention, requiring the efforts of many federal agencies (17 to be exact) and other stakeholders. Good community design, with sidewalks, adequ ...
February 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Town and city streets are an important part of the livability of communities, says Barbara McCann, Executive Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition and a presenter and moderator at this week’s New Partners for Smart Growth conference in ...