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Tools and Research
Peel is working with our area municipalities, as well as planning and health researchers, to create and implement evidence-based tools and guidelines to design neighbourhoods that promote healthy, active lifestyles.
Tools
- Healthy Development Assessment (HDA)
- HDA Large-Scale Tool (fillable)
- HDA Small-Scale Tool (fillable)
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Facility Design Guidance (PDF 4.5MB)
- Actively Designed Buildings Video (2015)
- Affordable Housing Active Design Guidelines and Standards (2014)
Background Research
- Improving Health by Design in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area - GTHA MOH Report
- Health and the Built Environment - Regional Official Plan Review
Discussion Paper (2013)
- Healthy Development Index Refinement Study (2012)
- Residential Preferences Study (2012)
- Health Background Study Framework (2011)
- Complete Document - (PDF 2.7MB,)
- Preface & Acknowledgements - (PDF 134KB)
- Situational Assessment - (PDF 409KB)
- Terms of Reference - (PDF 213KB)
- User Guide - (PDF 7MB)
- Evaluation Report - (PDF 141KB)
- Implementation Strategy - (PDF 202KB)
- References - (PDF 39KB)
- Peel Healthy Development Index 2009
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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 three projects: Healthy Development Index, Healthy Background Study Framework, and the Residential Preferences Study
Health Canada, through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer's CLASP initiative, as well as the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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