Academic Resources: Topical Resources
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Health Disparities and the Built Environment
research tools
- Built Environment, Division of Research Coordination, Planning, and Translation, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
- Built Environment Bibliography & News Collection, from Environmental Health Perspectives.
- Built Environment Related Articles, from the CDC
- Designing and Building Healthy Places, from the CDC. Includes information regarding child health, elder health, mental health, and social capital.
discussion
- Livability Listserv, from the CDC
publications
- American Journal of Public Health Vol. 93, Issue 9, September 1, 2003. Devoted to health and the built environment.
- The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation, from the Prevention Institute. Through a series of program profiles, this project highlights examples of neighborhood-level successes in altering elements of the built environment to improve health behaviors and outcomes.
- Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health. Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, and Chris Kochtitzky, MSP. Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse Monograph Series.
- Environmental Health Perspectives: Built Environment, a collection of articles from Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to the effect of the environment on human health.
- Is housing improvement a potential health improvement strategy? from the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Unit, University of Glasgow
- Exploring the Built Environment. Sally Faith Dorfman, MD, MSHSA. Medscape Public Health & Prevention, 9/22/04.
- Health, Equity, and the Built Environment. Howard Frumpkin in Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 113, No. 5, May 2005.
- Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Institute of Medicine, 2001.
