Events
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20 April 2006
Seminar Series 2 Lecture 5 - Dr Howard Frumkin
Location: Glasgow
Howard Frumkin MD, DrPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention: 'Urban vision and public health: designing and building wholesome places'
Key ideas:
- Urban design and planning impacts on health and wellbeing
- Designing urban spaces and communities to improve health and wellbeing
- Sedentary lifestyles, calorific intake, disease and illness
- Land use planning and health
- Traffic, air pollution, climate change and health
- Social processes associated with urban sprawl
- Social capital and urban sprawl
- Smart growth