The Healthy Regions Planning Exchange brings together practitioners, advocates, and community-based representatives from across the US to address structural issues that influence health and equity in regional planning.
General Resources
- Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities -- American Planning Association
- Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments -- California Department of Public Health
- A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity -- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Creating a Health Profile of Your Neighborhood: A How-To Guide -- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health in All Policies Resource Center -- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Human Community and Health Equity Lab -- Columbia University
- State of the Region’s Health -- Regional Plan Association
- What is Health Equity? -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their Built Environments -- Urban Institute
- Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts -- World Health Organization
- Healthy Urban Planning in Practice: Experience of European Cities -- World Health Organization
Housing Resources
- Housing And Health: An Overview Of The Literature -- Health Affairs
- How Does Housing Affect Health? -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health and Housing Equity -- American Public Health Association
- Universal Vouchers: Ending Homelessness and Expanding Economic Opportunity in America -- University of California Berkeley, Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Transportation Resources
- TransitCenter Equity Dashboard -- Transit Center
- Fight for Your Ride -- Transportation for America
- Rural Transportation Toolkit -- Rural Health Information Hub
Community Safety Resources
- Co-Responder Programs -- Colorado Department of Human Services:
- Community Policing in Immigrant Neighborhoods: Stories of Success -- Police Executive Research Forum:
- Neighborhood Activation Study -- Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice: