Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment. This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions. Supported by examples of policy and approaches, it focuses on implementation and delivery, and sets out what is needed to achieve healthier environments within the parameters of legislative and policy frameworks. It demonstrates how when we harness the art and science of public health spatial planning, can we begin to effect changes to the policies and decisions that shape population health.

About the Author
Michael Chao-Jung Chang is a Chartered Fellow town planner and public health professional working at the intersection of spatial planning for health policy development and implementation at national and local levels. Liz Green is a Consultant in Public Health / Programme Director for Health Impact Assessment, Public Health Wales and Visiting Professor at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments. Carl Petrokofsky is a Consultant in Public Health who developed the Healthy Places programme at Public Health England and Visiting Professor at the WHO.


Book Information
ISBN 9781447358466
Author Michael Chang
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press