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Education & Training

Education and training for a range of audiences about the linkages and interrelations between environments and health are essential for promoting healthy communities.

Principles:

  • Facilitate behavioural change by making healthy choices the easy choices.
  • Encourage community education and promotion
  • Encourage work rotations between industries influencing the built environment, so that there is better understanding of the complexities of environments for health
  • Raise awareness and educate about the value of incorporating determinants of health with other key stakeholders (including private development industries and roads authorities)
  • Include healthy planning in planning and health courses
  • Encourage continuing professional development on health and urban environment issues.

Resources 

Building stronger communities through physical activity: a practitioners resource

Case Studies

Health in All Policies, South Australia

Healthy Planning course, University of New South Wales

Training Courses for Professionals on Designing for Pedestrians and Cyclists, New South Wales and Queensland

 

Last updated on 22nd July, 2009
Sponsors This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.