Healthy Built Environment

A suite of resources to link health and planning practitioners’ practices toward healthier communities. – BC Provincial Health Services Authority

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Provides links to research, healthy physical activity guidelines, and healthy community design information.

Active Transportation Plans

Developed by local governments under the Built Environment and Active Transportation (BEAT) program. (program currently closed)

BC Ministry of Health: Age Friendly Communities information

Healthy Community Design Policy for Official Plans

Provides model healthy policy language and themes developed by health units for community plans. – Simcoe Muskoka Health

Built Environment & Active Transportation Community Planning Grant Program

Provides examples of local governments acting on the built environment. – Built Environment and Active Transportation (BEAT)

Healthy Communities Practice Guide

Offers a framework for considering the interconnected aspects of a healthy community and provides many practical examples of how communities are accomplishing healthy community goals withing a variety of community scales. – Canadian Institute of Planners

Health Equity and Community Design – What is the Canadian Evidence Saying? Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet No. 3

Succinct fact sheet based on a review of recent evidence in Canada. – Canadian Institute of Planners

Active Transportation, Health and Community Design – What is the Canadian Evidence Saying? Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet No. 1

Succinct fact sheet based on a review of recent evidence in Canada. – Canadian Institute of Planners

Active Transportation

Active Transportation describes all human-powered forms of travel, such as walking, cycling, in-line skating, skateboarding, skiing, canoeing, and more. Walking and cycling are among the most popular and can be combined with other modes, such as public transit.i Some...