Where you live can affect your health. Increasingly, advocates and researchers are drawing attention to the impact of neighborhood development and infrastructure on health, and are working to promote strategies that improve neighborhood conditions. This paper identifies community-driven approaches to improve neighborhoods so that residents can lead active, healthy lives.
The report explores the connection between development patterns, physical activity, and poor health. Adults and children in all communities, particularly in those most affected by poor health, should have equal opportunities to be active and healthy and to live in safe, walkable neighborhoods.
This exploration examines how neighborhoods that have become racially segregated and economically isolated as a result of sprawling development patterns offer few opportunities to be physically active, and how this harms the health of community residents. Policies and organizing efforts are highlighted to provide the readers with ideas for action.
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