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.