Episode 401: Health Gains for the Compact Walkable City
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Impact of Urban Environments on Health
As a physiotherapist I became fascinated by the close relationship between human health and our environments that we live in. In my public health studies, I became really fascinated by how policy specifically can support the creation of healthy built environments. And fundamentally driven by a desire to tackle inequities between different population groups and different areas in our cities. We've been working together with a team of others for a few years now on that program of work in Australia,. initially as a focus and then increasingly internationally.
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