Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities

G Boeing, C Higgs, S Liu, B Giles-Corti… - The Lancet Global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving
local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator …

What next? Expanding our view of city planning and global health, and implementing and monitoring evidence-informed policy

B Giles-Corti, AV Moudon, M Lowe, E Cerin… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
This Series on urban design, transport, and health aimed to facilitate development of a
global system of health-related policy and spatial indicators to assess achievements and …

City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities

M Lowe, D Adlakha, JF Sallis, D Salvo… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
City planning policies influence urban lifestyles, health, and sustainability. We assessed
policy frameworks for city planning for 25 cities across 19 lower-middle-income countries …

Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities: findings from the IPEN Adult study

E Cerin, JF Sallis, D Salvo, E Hinckson… - The Lancet Global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
An essential characteristic of a healthy and sustainable city is a physically active population.
Effective policies for healthy and sustainable cities require evidence-informed quantitative …

City planning and population health: a global challenge

B Giles-Corti, A Vernez-Moudon, R Reis, G Turrell… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Significant global health challenges are being confronted in the 21st century, prompting
calls to rethink approaches to disease prevention. A key part of the solution is city planning …

Use of science to guide city planning policy and practice: how to achieve healthy and sustainable future cities

JF Sallis, F Bull, R Burdett, LD Frank, P Griffiths… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-
communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low …

Land use, transport, and population health: estimating the health benefits of compact cities

M Stevenson, J Thompson, TH de Sá, R Ewing… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Using a health impact assessment framework, we estimated the population health effects
arising from alternative land-use and transport policy initiatives in six cities. Land-use …

Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward

Y Bai, Y Zhang, O Zotova, H Pineo, J Siri… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20.
Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put health …

[图书][B] Global report on urban health: equitable, healthier cities for sustainable development

P Rosenberg, M Kano, I Ludford, A Prasad, H Thomson - 2016 - eprints.gla.ac.uk
The Global report on urban health: equitable, healthier cities for sustainable development,
2016 presents new data on the health of urban residents from nearly 100 countries …

Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities

B Giles-Corti, M Lowe, J Arundel - Health Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2016, the World Health Organization declared that 'Health is one of the most
effective markers of any city's successful sustainable development'(World Health …