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February 4, 2013 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2009, 25 community partnerships across the country pursued projects designed to revamp the built environment and change public policies to make physical activity part of everyday life.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Similar urban development strategies can benefit both public health and greenhouse gas emissions goals. Increased investment in transit, coupled with increased walkability of local neighborhoods, can lead to a more active, healthier and sustainable future.
December 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The fast-food industry spends $660 million to market its products to children and adolescents each year and spends the most on toys for kids’ meals—$360 million for the cost of toys alone. These efforts help fast-food restaurants sell more than 1.2 ...
January 10, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Harriet Tregoning: Many of the things we’ve implemented are low cost. Our bike share program, for example, pays for itself. Operating costs are paid for by user fees, which are $75 to join, and the first half hour is free. The city would be willing ...
November 1, 2004 | Program Result
New Jersey Future, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization, developed a special "Creating Healthy Communities" section on its Smart Growth Gateway Web site (no longer in existence) in April 2003.
February 1, 2005 | Issue Brief
This research summary gives a synopsis of the current state of peer-reviewed research into what makes a community "walkable" or "bikeable."
January 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
"Designing Healthy Communities,” a four-part series funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, debuts this month and next on many Public Broadcasting stations. The program looks at the impact the built environment has on key public health ...
March 25, 2009 | Book
Programming office building elevators to stop only on every third floor, so that stairs become the only access to certain floors for nondisabled employees, can push employees to use stairs more and thus get more physical activity, as it did in the California building which is the subject of this study.
January 1, 2007 | Program Result
A multisite research team, led by a researcher from the Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development, examined the factors that encourage older adults to use local parks and recreational services and what policy changes might be made to promote park use among older adults to increase their physical activity.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the emerging practice of health impact assessment and stresses their importance when decisions about issues of urban planning, land use and environmental regulation can directly affect the conditions in which people live, work and play.