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Increasing Collaboration Among Philanthropies to Promote Healthy Communities

January 26, 2010 | Program Result

RWJF joined the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities to encourage partnerships between smart growth proponents and those working to promote active living in their communities.

Disparities in Urban Neighborhood Conditions

January 1, 2009 | Journal Article

Low-income urban neighborhoods are less conducive to walking than other neighborhoods, even if they have comparable population densities, street layouts, and mixed-land use, according to this study of census data and direct observation of neighborhoods in New York City.

Investigator Reveals Keys to Creating Healthy Cities

November 22, 2009 | Story

New book maps out solutions to the longstanding public health problems plaguing urban centers.

Using Built Environment Characteristics to Predict Walking for Exercise

February 29, 2008 | Journal Article

Results of previous studies have been inconsistent about whether the environment close to home affects the likelihood of residents partaking in physical activity. This paper finds no significant association between an individual's surrounding environment and walking for exercise.

Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension

July 1, 2008 | Journal Article

This study showed an association between neighborhood factors such as poor walkability and safety and less availability to healthy foods on the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). When race/ethnicity was adjusted for socioeconomic indicators the associations were attenuated. More work is needed to clarify the association between race, neighborhood characteristics and CVD.

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Florida During the 2004 Hurricane Season

April 1, 2007 | Journal Article

Generators are sources of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning when used in poorly ventilated spaces or too near inhabited buildings.

Fellowships Bring Student Leaders to Miami for Active-Living-by-Design Meeting

April 1, 2004 | Program Result

The Congress for the New Urbanism sponsored the Active Living by Design Student Fellowship Program to fund student attendance at its tenth anniversary meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., in June 2002.

2002 Summit with Leaders of Distressed Neighborhoods Explores Relationship Between Built Environment, Physical Activity and Health

April 1, 2004 | Program Result

PolicyLink held a summit, Promoting Regional Equity: A National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice and Smart Growth, from November 17-19, 2002 in Los Angeles.

The Active Living Programs

January 1, 2008 | Book

As a consequence of sedentary lifestyles, obesity rates have climbed dramatically over the last half-century, leading to increases in diabetes, heart attacks and other illnesses.

Lack of Parks and Open Space Means Less Physical Activity for Californians, California Health Interview Survey Finds

September 1, 2007 | Program Result

E. Richard Brown, Ph.D., led a team of researchers in fielding a new Housing and Neighborhood Environment module as part of the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

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