That is why our World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre have created a practical Health Impact Assessment (HIA) toolkit that will enable planers to easily integrate health into their development plans for the future.
The importance of and the interconnected nature of health and planning has recently been magnified by the Coronavirus pandemic, the impact that measures to control transmission, such as lockdowns have had in relation to housing and employment opportunities and access to places and spaces. Now is a perfect opportunity to plan better for our future.
They’ve designed the toolkit to be as easy and simple as possible and to maximise positive health and wellbeing outcomes through land use planning policies that create healthy, equitable and cohesive communities - so we can all look forward to a healthier future.
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