Academic Resources: topical resources: health disparities and the built environment
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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.
updated April 19, 2007