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The Health Map: Its genesis and widespread use in guiding urban spatial policy and action for population and planetary health

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Published 2023 in Perspectives in Public Health

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establishment in 1995. the diagram visually brings into relationship factors such as food, air quality, natural environments, energy, housing, transport and activity, biodiversity and climate as determinants of health in neighbourhood design. this WHO collaborating centre was established, uniquely among WHO collaborating centres, within a Faculty of the Built environment, and not a health faculty. Its remit was to provide built environment disciplinary support to the WHO european Healthy cities Network through the thematic development of Healthy Urban Planning within the healthy cities programme, with Healthy Urban Planning being the title and subject of the first book on the subject, published by Barton in 2000.3 the Health Map subsequently added a tool for rapid transmission of the concept for the many non-healthcare professional disciplines whose activity impacts human health, especially those involved with built and natural urban environments. the visual design of the Health Map is strongly aligned with the model of health determinants from Dahlgren and Whitehead,4 but the genesis of ideas was from another source, as already documented by Barton.2 However, there was a different purpose behind the design of the Health Map, and a number of important distinctions between these two classic portraits of the wider determinants of health. The Health Map: Its genesis and widespread use in guiding urban spatial policy and action for population and planetary health

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