NCCEH E-news: Healthy Built Environment

Healthy Built Environment Forum

To foster pan-Canadian networking and shared learning, the NCCEH has collaborated with the BC Centre for Disease Control to develop a “Healthy Built Environment (HBE) in Canada” online discussion forum. Champions from each province and territory are needed to assist with the development of this forum. Champions may represent any profession that has a role in supporting healthy built environment (i.e. research, community and land use planning, local government, public health, non-profit). Forum champions will help to keep the forum lively and engaging by promoting within their province or territory, leading discussions, identifying emerging issues and presenters, and sharing resources.

If you are interested in becoming a Champion or would like to learn more about the Forum, please click on the button below.

Webinar: Mapping the Built Environment

In this webinar, Peel Public Health will provide an overview of the methodology and collaborative decision-making process required to create built environment indicators, a description of the indicators, and their role in measuring the health-promoting potential of neighbourhoods in Peel. The Healthy Development: Monitoring Map, an online interactive story map displaying these built environment indicators and the Peel Walkability Composite Index, will also be demonstrated.

Built Environment Topic Page

The NCCEH has created a curated shortlist of resources that introduces environmental health and public health practitioners to the field of healthy built environment (HBE). The links on the topic page provide the rationale for environmental health and public health involvement in promoting healthy communities. They also help to identify opportunities for multisectoral discussions and collaborations while assisting with program planning in HBE work.

Announcements

Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program

The Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program for First Nations South of 60°N is accepting proposals for the 2019-2020 fiscal year to support community-based and/or regional-based research projects to help minimize health risks caused by climate change. Application deadline: October 22, 2018.

Equity and Inclusion Lens Handbook

The Equity and Inclusion Lens Handbook, currently being implemented in the City of Ottawa, is an interactive tool that will help you to learn about equity and inclusion and to apply it to your work.

Free courses

The Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia (PICNET) provides online training opportunities for EPH professionals. They also give you the opportunity to revisit their past classes.

Healty Built Environment Toolkit Updated

The BCCDC has released an updated version of the “Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit: making the links between design, planning and health” (Version 2.0). The HBE Linkages Toolkit synthesizes research and key messages to help describe how planning and design principles are linked to population health outcomes. A two page summary is available as well as the full document.

Ready-to-Eat Meats: Assessing the Food Safety Risks

The Ready-to-Eat Meats: Assessing the Food Safety Risks is available for free. PHIs can earn PDH credits by completing this course online.

In the Blog

Upcoming Events

September

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Protecting the Ontario population from radon: Challenges and opportunities

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Are greener (and bluer) cities really better for health?

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2018 CIPHI Ontario Educational Conference

October

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Mapping the Built Environment: Peel Public Health’s Healthy Development Mapping and Monitoring Project

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2018 CIPHI SK Annual Education Conference

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Fourth International Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health

Recent Publications

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Climate

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Health Equity

What enables and constrains the inclusion of the social determinants of health inequities in government policy agendas? A narrative review

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Production of the NCCEH eNews has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada through the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health. NCCEH is one of six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health.