HDMT - The Built Environment & Health

The Built Environment & Health

Websites and Articles

National Association of City and County Health Officials. Community Design and Land Use Program. Available at: http://www.naccho.org/topics/hpdp/Land_Use_Planning.cfm
LEED-ND Core Committee. Understanding the Relationship between Public Health and the Built Environment. May 2006. Available at: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=148#randt
Corburn J. Confronting the challenges in reconnecting urban planning and public health. American Journal of Public Health. 2004;94:541-546.
Dannenberg AL, Jackson RJ, Frumkin H, Schieber RA, Pratt M, Kochtitzky C, Tilson HH. The impact of community design and land-use choices on public health: a scientific research agenda. American Journal of Public Health. 2003;93:1500-8.
Frumkin H, Frank L, Jackson R. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
Institute of Medicine. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Washington, DC; National Academy Press, 2001.
Kawachi I, Berkman LF. Neighborhoods and Health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Maantay J. Zoning, equity, and public health. American Journal of Public Health. 2001;91:1033-1041.
Marmot M and Wilkinson W, eds. Social determinants of health: the solid facts. 2003, 2nd ed