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Healthy Built Environment (HBE) Linkages:

A Toolkit for Design Planning Health

Healthy Built Environment Alliance(HBEA; the Alliance)

• Members from:– Land use planning – Design fields– Provincial ministries – Health authorities – Community-based health

organizations– Local government– Universities/academia

• Knowledge sharing network

• Forum for collaboration on priority activities to promote & develop built environments that encourage & support healthy living

Healthy built environments:What do they look like?

(A) (B)

e.g., Which of these neighbourhoods is more ‘walkable’?

How do you decide what to do?

Examine the evidence.....

Healthy built environments:How do we create them?

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Purpose

Why did the Alliance develop another toolkit?

How should we share health evidence that can support good planning and the HBE?

What are our key messages about the HBE? (need for common language/consistent messaging)

HBE Linkages Toolkit:Approach

Collected, analyzed & summarized the evidence

1. Consultation with experts• Advisory groups – planners and content experts

2. Evidence review methodology• Literature reviews of the physical features:

– Neighbourhood design– Transportation Networks– Natural environments– Food systems– Housing

3. Grading system• Systematic clustering of findings

HBE Linkages Toolkit:Findings

Current evidence used to identify planning principles for each of the five physical features

User guide created to encourage consideration of context

HBE Linkages Toolkit:What does the evidence say?

HBE Linkages Toolkit:Components

www.phsa.ca/populationhealth

Planning principles for:

• Healthy Neighbourhood Design• Healthy Transportation Networks• Healthy Natural Environments• Healthy Food Systems• Healthy Housing

http://www.phsa.ca/populationhealth

HBE Linkages Toolkit: Scope of Evidence Review/Toolkit

• Systematic reviews

• English; North America, Europe and Australia

• No specified time frame

• Context: urban and rural

• Focused on large-scale, outdoor physical features & environments)

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HBE Linkages Toolkit: Limitations

• See User Guide!

• Indirect nature of evidence linking principles to health outcomes

• Toolkit identifies what should be done to create HBEs – it doesn’t get into the how

• Significantly more research is available for some physical features (e.g., neighbourhood design) vs. others (e.g., food systems)

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Linkages Summary

• Briefly describes the links shown in the literature between:

• Planning principles• Intermediate impacts• Health-related outcomes




Fact Sheet

• Describes the evidence behind each planning principle, and how these link to intermediate impacts & health-related outcomes




Health Evidence Diagram

• Visually show the strength of evidence or expert opinion linking planning principles to impacts & health-related outcomes

• Shows areas where more research needed


HBE Linkages Toolkit: Summary

1) It’s a “conversation-starter”• Provides an organizing framework for

presenting information and facilitating discussions between & within sectors

2) Helps users apply health evidence• Provides consistent & clear messages to

inform the development of other documents & support decision-making around health & the built environment

3) Identifies where more research needed

• Toolkit provides a roadmap for emerging and innovative evidence

HBE Linkages Toolkit: Next Steps


Sustainability plan• Monitor the evidence base &

periodically update the toolkit

• Develop a user guide to support evidence collection/capture

Evaluation plan

• Track toolkit use

• Seek feedback from users for toolkit improvement & suggestions for other resources needed



Questions?

• Download the HBE Linkages Toolkit


• Contact us!

[email protected]

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Discussion Questions

1) Will the HBE Linkages Toolkit be useful for your work? If yes, please share some examples of how it will be useful.

2) Who will you share the HBE Linkages Toolkit with?

3) How do you think HBE Linkages Toolkit could be improved?

4) What additional HBE tools or resources would help support you in your work?

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