Peel is working with our area municipalities, as well as planning and health researchers, to create evidence-based tools and guidelines to design neighbourhoods that promote healthy, active lifestyles.
- Peel Healthy Development Index;
- Assessment Tool
- Conceptual Models
- Health Background Study Framework
- Healthy Development Index Refinement Study
Peel Healthy Development Index
- Full Report – Dec. 2009 (PDF 3MB, 280 pages)
Assessment Tool
- Executive Summary – Jan. 2009 (PDF 231KB, 12 pages)
- Full Report – Jan. 2009 (PDF 7.8MB, 116 pages)
- Supporting Evidence – Jan. 2009 (PDF 148KB, 33 pages)
- Literature Review – Nov. 2008 (PDF 2.3MB, 97 pages)
Conceptual Models
Our conceptual modes are spatial maps depicting the links between land use, transportation, public policy, physical environment and health.
- Conceptual Models: The Relationship between Built Environment and Health– Dec. 2008 (PDF 975 KB, 38 pages)
Healthy Canada by Design Projects
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The Region of Peel is a partner in the Coalitions Linking Action & Science for Prevention (CLASP) project. The initiative unites existing and emerging cross-sector efforts to promote healthy built environments. Core to the mandate of the coalition is to translate the latest research in this field into state-of-the-art tools to support policy-makers, public health officials, planners and developers in tapping into the many opportunities brought by healthy built environments. Under this initiative, Peel Public Health has completed two projects:
- Health Background Study Framework
(Complete document - PDF 2.7 MB, 122 pages) - Preface & Acknowledgements
(PDF 134KB, 4 pages) - Situational Assessment
(PDF 409KB, 44 pages) - Terms of Reference
(PDF 213KB, 22 pages) - User Guide
(PDF 7MB, 34 pages) - Evaluation Report
(PDF 141KB, 4 pages) - Implementation Strategy
(PDF 202KB, 13 pages) - References
(PDF 39KB, 2 pages) - Healthy Development Index Refinement Study
- Screen Quality (PDF 6.2 MB, 31 pages)
- Print Quality (PDF 11.1 MB, 31 pages)
- Appendices (PDF 4.4 MB, 109 pages)
Healthy Canada by Design projects have been made possible through financial and/or in-kind contributions from Health Canada, through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer's CLASP initiative, as well as the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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