PolicyLink Center for Health and Place
Vision StatementWhere you live affects how you live. Live in a community with parks and playgrounds, living wages, grocery stores that sell nutritious food, well maintained housing, and high quality public transit, and you’re more likely to thrive. But if you live in a community with dilapidated housing, few job opportunities, limited... read more  |
Spotlight: Tools & Resources
PolicyLink Resources:
- Recommendations for the Prevention and Wellness Funds:
A Memo Prepared for President Obama’s Administration (download pdf) - Grocery Store Attraction Strategies:
A Resource Guide for Community Activists and Local Governments - Promoting Healthy Public Policy
through Community-Based Participatory Research - Breathing Easy from Home to School:
Fighting the Environmental Triggers of Childhood Asthma - Transforming Community Development
with Land Information Systems - Understanding Climate Change:
An Equitable Framework - Asthma and the Environment (EDTK tool)
- Healthy Food Retailing (EDTK tool)
- Growing Greener Cities, see book chapter by Victor Rubin, PolicyLink V.P. of Research
- F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009
A report by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Equityblog
Multimedia
Demand Equity Now Recovery Briefing Series: Listen to all past calls
