{"id":156,"date":"2006-07-11T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"Health_Impacts_of_the_Built_Environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Health Impacts of the Built Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended the launch of a report by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland on Health Impacts of the Built Environment.&nbsp; The launch included a presentation by Richard Jackson, Professor of Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.&nbsp; The main lesson I took from it for application to my work as a councillor is the importance of walkable neighbourhoods for health.&nbsp; Creating car-dependent communities has a severe impact on public health.&nbsp; Medical treatment (at great cost, whether public or private) will not undo this impact.&nbsp; We as councillors have a particular responsibility to ensure that&nbsp; our communities are walkable. <\/p>\n<p>These considerations unfortunately did not influence the Council&#8217;s decision later on in yesterday in relation to access in Baldoyle.<br \/> The review is at http:\/\/www.publichealth.ie\/index.asp?locID=489&amp;docID=649<\/p>\n<p>Richard Jackson&#8217;s presentation should be going up on www.publichealth.ie very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended the launch of a report by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland on Health Impacts of the Built Environment.&nbsp; The launch included a presentation by Richard Jackson, Professor of Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.&nbsp; The main lesson I took from it for application to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}