A good resource for CSP members and participants:
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/
CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative is part of the National Center for Environmental Health's Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services. The Initiative works to improve public health by: 

• Linking public health surveillance with community design
  decisions;
• Improving community design decisions through tools such
  as Health Impact Assessment;
• Educating decision makers on the health impact of community design;
• Building partnerships with community design decision makers and
  their influencers;
• Conducting research to identify the links between health and
  community design; and
• Translating research into best practices.

Eat your vegetables. Exercise. Get plenty of sleep. Adopt good city planning policies??

Did you know that the way a city is designed has a huge impact on the health of the people that live there? Want to know how?

Join Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga, the Health Trust and MVCSP as we host Heather Wooten, senior associate and expert on the links between health and city planning with Public Health Law & Policy on Thursday, January 27 at City Hall. The event will be kicked off with a short film about healthy, eco-friendly living being that’s happening right here in Mountain View!

Healthy Communities in Practice and Policy
January 27, 7 p.m.-8:45 p.m.
Council Chambers, City Hall
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
Free admission
Light refreshments will be served

The Livable Communities Forum presents
Heather Wooten of Public Health Law and Policy to discuss the intersection of public health and land use.

The event is co-sponsored by the Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning, The Health Trust, and Mountain View Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga


January 27, 2011
7:00-8:30 p.m.
The Mountain View Community Center
201 South Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View
Free admission, snacks provided.