taunya english, health and the built environment webinar slides
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Reporting on
the Built Environment and Health
Taunya English, WHYY Radio
NewsWorks.org
Beyond the doctor’s office
Beyond the doctor’s office
Oh, the places you’ll go
Credit and apologies to Dr. Seuss
Kick-off questions
Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity - New York Times, April 2012
Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work? - Washington Post, June 2012
Hunger experts, meeting in Phila., stew over ‘food deserts’ - Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 2011
Kids buy cheap snacks at the corner store - WHYY, October 2009
Kick-off questions
“It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.”– Dr. Seuss
New “health care” sounds
Knock at the door
Mass Transit
Public Housing
Understanding the sector
A different kind of practitioner
City and transit planners
Social workers
Population health scholars
Housing advocates
Understanding the sector
Understanding the sector
Understanding the sector
Understanding the sector
Understanding the sector
Courtesy Jennifer Culhane, MPH, PHD – Drexel University
Naming the series
http://www.newsworks.org/designsonhealth
Understanding maps
Tools of the trade
GIS
Neighborhood data sets
• Crime stats
• Air quality reports
• Birth, death records
• School attendance, delinquency
• Noise complaints
• Vacant lots, abandoned buildings
Understanding maps
Esri Health GIS Conference
Institute on GIS and Public Health
Understanding maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6d0By7GhE
Institute on GIS and Public Health
Amy Hillier, PennDesign
What I learned from Charlie Branas, Cartographic Modeling Lab
Maps can be misleading
What I learned from Dennis Culhane, Cartographic Modeling Lab
Neighborhood effects
physical distance social distance
The series
What matters in a neighborhood?
Walkability
• The WISH Study Walkability’s Impact on Senior Health
• NIH funded
• Philadelphia Corp. for Aging
Walkability
“Broken sidewalks, streetlights that change to fast for an older adult to get across … bus stops where there’s no place to sit down. Neighborhoods that are nice and kempt and lovely but it’s blocks and blocks to get to a grocery or a market.” - researcher Allen Glicksman
Walkability
Walkability
The series
What matters in a neighborhood?
Home
• Multi-family smoking policies
• Mold, water damage
• Dust mites, roaches, pests
• Crowded living conditions
• Proximity to traffic, car pollution
Home
Home
Home
"If you are talking about some of the poorer patients, you can't just pick yourself up and leave. You are where you are, and if you have neighbors on both sides, who might not keep up their home-- and you do--you are impacted by them.” - pediatrician Hal Byke
The series
What matters in a neighborhood?
Mass transit
Parks, places to play
Bike lanes
But, what’s enough?
HIA – Health Impact Assessment
Mass transit
Proposal: Spend $400M to extend subway
(and get workers out of their cars)
Mass transit
Mass transit
Mass transit
• Three pix from video footage glaxo, urban, young workers
Detours, dead ends
“Sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.” – Dr. Seuss
Detours, dead ends
Goal: Launch a new conversation about the power of place and the influence of neighborhood on health.
#builtenvironment #hia
#placehealth
“Creating a nonorganic hashtag may be the hardest thing ever.” -- Don Henry, WHYY Director of Digital News
Does it work?
Taunya: A: “We don’t know yet.”
A: “Stay tuned.”
A: “Experts are tracking … ”
A: “Evidence is mounting.”
Detours, dead ends