Healthy Built Environment (HBE)
Linkages:
A Toolkit for Design  Planning  Health
PRESENTER
Title
Organization
Presented at CONFERENCE NAME, CITY
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DATE
Healthy Built Environment Alliance
(HBEA; the Alliance)
• Knowledge sharing
network
• Forum for collaboration
on priority activities to
promote & develop
built environments that
encourage & support
healthy living
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Members from:
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Land use planning
Design fields
Provincial ministries
Health authorities
Community-based health
organizations
– Local government
– Universities/academia
Healthy built environments:
What do they look like?
e.g., Which of these neighbourhoods is more ‘walkable’?
(A)
(B)
Healthy built environments:
How do we create them?
How do you decide what to do?
 Examine the evidence.....
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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:
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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
Planning principles for:
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Healthy Neighbourhood Design
Healthy Transportation Networks
Healthy Natural Environments
Healthy Food Systems
Healthy Housing
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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HBE Linkages Toolkit:
Components
Linkages Summary
• Briefly describes the links
shown in the literature between:
• Planning principles
• Intermediate impacts
• Health-related outcomes
www.phsa.ca/populationhealth
HBE Linkages Toolkit:
Components
Fact Sheet
• Describes the evidence behind
each planning principle, and
how these link to intermediate
impacts & health-related
outcomes
www.phsa.ca/populationhealth
HBE Linkages Toolkit:
Components
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
www.phsa.ca/populationhealth
HBE Linkages Toolkit:
Summary
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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
www.phsa.ca/populationhealth
Questions?
• Download the HBE Linkages Toolkit
www.phsa.ca/populationhealth
• Contact us!
pph@phsa.ca
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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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