PLAN432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Longitudinal Study, Public Health
3 Apr 2016
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Leverage using health as a leverage point: health is a major objective of current planning practice now inserted into the. 2014 pps, various official plans: focus on safety (road and environmental) plus physical activity and active transportation. Obesity, chronic disease: health gives stronger argument to support policies, leverage issues. Support: holistic definition of health and social determinants of health means everything is connected to health, health in all policies and healthy public policy. Public health, engineering, transit and housing, poverty reduction, aboriginal issues: public support. Moving beyond physical activity: focus on food, mental health, aging.
