Healthy Rural Communities Toolkit: A Guide for Rural Communities

This tool kit is intended for use in rural communities. Municipalities, including planners, health authority staff, and elected officials are the intended audience, although the tool kit will also help other interested community members advocate for healthier...

Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF)

The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation works to improve understanding of issues and opportunities that are of common interest to rural residents across Canada. Their members include rural leaders, rural organizations, development practitioners, government policy...

An Air Quality Monitoring Network

There are many adverse affects from poor air quality that influence both human and environment health. Understanding these implications is vital if we want to improve community wellbeing. One way to learn is through real time online air monitoring data. Purple Air is...

Healthy Rural Communities: Promising Practices Videos

The Promising Practices videos found on the Healthy Rural Communities website were the result of the workshops led by Dr. Wayne Caldwell with partnership from Public Health Ontario. The workshops were information dissemination for the Healthy Rural Communities Toolkit...

Happy Homes

A toolkit for building sociability through multi-family housing The way we design multi-family housing can make or break social connections and trust. We’ve gathered evidence from psychology, neuroscience, public health and other fields to identify how design...

Capital Regional District Community Map

The Capital Regional District (CRD) Community Map is designed to support health and wellbeing in the capital region by allowing users to visualize where diverse populations are living and what their proximity is to community resources and affordable transportation...

Presentation: The Economic and Social Wellbeing Co-Benefits of Healthy Built Environments

Victoria Barr, PlanH program manager, discusses the co-benefits of a healthy built environment on social well-being and economic viability in this video of the he BC Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) Grand Rounds on April 4th 2017. The video begins with an...

Bicycling: Health Risk or Benefit?

Communities across BC are motivated to promote cycling as a mode of transportation.  The motivations for these changes are multifaceted. At the municipal level, they include the impossibility of managing traffic congestion via increased roadways, green city strategies...

Vital Signs Sport and Belonging

How can sport attract and include more of us to play, volunteer and cheer — and help us feel like we belong? How can sport and recreation help the 35% of Canadians who find it difficult to make new friends? From healthier and more meaningful lives; safer, more...

Cycling in Cities: Preferred Route types

UBC researchers used an Opinion Survey to determine which route types and what other factors motivate or deter cycling. The survey used a web or mailed questionnaire to ask 1,402 adults in Metro Vancouver (Canada) about 16 routes types and 73 other factors that might...