The built environment, climate change and health
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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
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