WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE BICENTENNAL PARK 1

The built environment, climate change and health

Professor Anthony CaponNational Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANUHealthy Built Environments Program, UNSW

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ABS estimates

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An urbanising landscape

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Phases of concern about cities and health

19th Century – rapid urbanisation and epidemics of infections and respiratory diseaseEdwin Chadwick: Health of Towns movement

Other phases of concern:Garden Cities Ebenezer HowardWHO Healthy Cities Leonard Duhl, Trevor Hancock

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Contemporary urban health challenges

Sedentary way of life – transport, work, recreation

Obesity arises from an energy imbalance – too much in, too little out

Obesity and chronic disease are consequences of maladaptation to the ready availability (and low cost) of fossil fuel energy

Need integrative ways of understanding – somatic and extra-somatic energy flows in cities

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2006 AAS Fenner Conference Urbanism, Environment and Health

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Framework for urban sustainability and population health

Economy and work

Transport and urban form

Housing and buildings

Nature and landscape

Media and communication

Culture and spirituality

Air, water, noise, infection, chemical exposures, local climate

Food security

Physical activity

Safety

Family relationships

Social capital

Urban ecological footprint

Hum

an health and wellbeing

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Boyden’s biosensitivity triangle

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Co-benefits for health

Lancet Series on Health and Climate Changehttp://www.thelancet.com/series/health-and-climate-change

Low-carbon ways of living are healthy ways of livingEnergy generation

MobilityFood choicesHousing

2010 AAS Fenner Conferencehttp://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/226/paper/NB10032.htm

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Healthy Built Environments ProgramUNSW Cities Futures Research CentreA/Prof Susan ThompsonNSW Health Department funding

1. Education and workforce capacity2. Policy- and practice-relevant research3. Leadership and advocacy

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http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2010/hud_checklist.html

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New bookAug 2011