| Organisation name |
The Healthy Built Environments Program, UNSW |
| Organisation type |
Academic institution |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Physical activity / Exercise / Sport
- Food / Nutrition
- Urban / town planning
- Landscape architecture
- Transport
- Environment
- Interagency organisation
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| Description |
The HBEP aims to revitalise the relationship between the built environment and health professions so that together we can create built environments that support people being healthy in their everyday lives.
The HBEP has three main areas of focus - Research, Leadership and Advocacy and Education and Workforce Development. |
| Commenced Work |
Two to five years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Policy development
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Research to better understand healthy built environments
- Translating research into policy
- Education - formal courses
- Capacity building / staff training
- Information resource
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Tools for practitioners
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| Key objectives of HBE activities |
- To improve people's physical health
- To increase people's physical activity level
- To strengthen social capital
- To reduce pollution from traffic
- To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
- To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active |
- Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
- Reducing urban sprawl
- Providing public open space
- Providing recreational facilities / playgrounds
- Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
- Providing facilities such as toilets, drinking fountains, shelter etc.
- Improving residential and commercial densities, land use mix
- Improving connectivity
- Improving accessibility
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities |
- Advocating for places where people can meet and connect
- Input into planning processes that advocate for and strengthen social connectivity
- Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
- Promoting equitable access to community facilities
- Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
- Encouraging supportive social networks within neighbourhoods and participation in decision-making
- Influencing proximity to places of employment
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food |
- Advocating/supporting facilities (e.g. water fountains, community gardens, fresh food markets and allotments, breastfeeding locations etc.)
- Advocating for public transport measures that support access to healthy food (e.g. schedules and timetables and routes, space to store parcels en route, shopping shuttles, home delivery services and/or support for local corner shops and convenience stores)
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| The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Application of Healthy by Design and Child Friendly Places.
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| Target Population |
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
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| Website |
http://www.be.unsw.edu.au/programmes/healthy-built-environments-program/about |
