An evidence resource for planning and designing healthier places.

Although there is a multitude of guidance supporting and advocating action on the built and natural environment to improve health outcomes, the evidence base underpinning these principles is still a matter of debate amongst the scientific and practitioner communities. The unique and individual nature of the built and natural environment make it difficult to develop evidence-based approaches that can be universally applied, and successful practices in one community setting may not always be transferrable to another.

This project was commissioned by PHE to address the need for a UK-centric evidence review that analyses and demonstrates the links between health and the built and natural environment. This review attempts to provide an overview, based on the umbrella review methodology outlined in this document, of the strength of the evidence of the impacts on health of the built and natural environment with the purpose to inform action and policy.

Spatial Planning for Health: an evidence resource for planning and designing healthier places (publishing.service.gov.uk)

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