Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention

Pilkington, Paul

Abstract

There is a renewed emphasis on the importance of place as a major health determinant, including the need to promote healthier and more sustainable environments and communities. This is in the main a response to two of the most pressing public health issues of our time; climate change and what has been termed the “obesity epidemic”, both of which can only be addressed adequately through significant changes to our environment and way of life. This presentation identifies a number of injury prevention related initiatives that could be advanced by capitalising on the shared agendas of injury prevention, sustainability, and the need to promote physical activity, including the lowering of default speed limits in residential areas and the healthy design of residential developments. Public health professionals, often responsible for the wider health of their population, are ideally placed to facilitate shared agendas by bringing together the multi-agency and multi-professional groups required to take forward policies.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: Safety 2010: World Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference
• Start Date: Sep 21, 2010
• End Date: Sep 24, 2010
• Publication Date: Sep 24, 2010
• Deposit Date: Mar 24, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 10, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: healthy environment, sustainable environment, injury prevention, opportunities
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1435565
• Contract Date: Feb 10, 2016