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Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., McClymont, K., Griffin, E., & Carmichael, L. (in press). Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232200

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

Designing healthier neighbourhoods: A systematic review of the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing (2020)
Journal Article
Ige-Elegbede, J., Pilkington, P., Orme, J., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Black, D., & Carmichael, L. (2022). Designing healthier neighbourhoods: A systematic review of the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing. Cities and Health, 6(5), 1004-1019. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1799173

Several studies have investigated the impact of neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing, yet there are limited reviews investigating the quality of the evidence and the most effective interventions at a population level. This systematic review a... Read More about Designing healthier neighbourhoods: A systematic review of the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing.

Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies? (2020)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Prestwood, E., Marsh, R., Ige, J., Williams, B., Pilkington, P., …Michalec, A. (2020). Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?. Science of the Total Environment, 719, Article 137146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137146

Research has demonstrated that housing quality is a key urban intervention in reducing health risks and improving climate resilience, addressing a key ambition of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yet housing quality remains a problem... Read More about Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?.

Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review (2019)
Report
Griffin, E., McClymont, K., Carmichael, L., & Marsh, R. (2019). Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review. Power to Change

This report examines existing literature on the relationship between community-led housing (CLH) and health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on identifying what evidence is available and where future research may further strengthen this knowled... Read More about Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review.

Delivering urban health through urban planning and design (2019)
Book Chapter
Carmichael, L. (2019). Delivering urban health through urban planning and design. In G. Deverteuil, I. Vojnovic, A. Pearson, G. Asiki, & A. Allen (Eds.), Handbook of Global Urban Health. London: Routledge

The world is increasingly becoming urban. Estimates show that 54.6% of the world’s population lived in cities in 2016 with a forecast of 60% by 2030 (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2016). The 600 largest cities produce 70% of the world’... Read More about Delivering urban health through urban planning and design.

Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms (2019)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Townshend, T. G., Fischer, T. B., Lock, K., Petrokofsky, C., Sheppard, A., …Ogilvie, F. (2019). Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms. Land Use Policy, 84, 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.043

© 2019 The Authors This article synthesises the challenges faced by the English (urban) spatial planning system to become an enabler of urban health and explores some keys features of the evidence base, policy tools and policy implementation issues t... Read More about Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms.

Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Drane, M., & Carmichael, L. (2018, October). Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice. Paper presented at City Street 3, Beirut, Lebanon

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global health challenge and physical environment factors play a material role in NCDs. The residential street is a building block of the physical environment and has been identified a place to integrate health... Read More about Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice.

The relationship between buildings and health: A systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Ige, J., Pilkington, P., Orme, J., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Black, D., …Scally, G. (2019). The relationship between buildings and health: A systematic review. Journal of Public Health, 41(2), E121-E132. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy138

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of 268 Public Health. All rights reserved. Background The built environment exerts one of the strongest directly measurable effects on physical and mental health, yet the... Read More about The relationship between buildings and health: A systematic review.

Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report (2018)
Report
Asirvatham, D., Brohi, S. N., Xion, T. E., Theng, T. G., Fei, N. J., Kaur, S., …Bushell, J. (2018). Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report

Financed by the British Council Institutional Links program this Smart Mobility Cities project has opened a fascinating window on a journey of discovery linking Bristol and Kuala Lumpur. This journey was in part directed towards the realisation of Sm... Read More about Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report.

Environment and health for European cities in the 21st century: Making a difference (2017)
Report
Carmichael, L., Racioppi, F., Calvert, T., & Sinnett, D. (2017). Environment and health for European cities in the 21st century: Making a difference

With more than 80% of the European population expected to live in urban areas by 2030, cities play a pivotal role in steering the transition towards a low-carbon society as well as in promoting and protecting health and wellbeing, and preventing and... Read More about Environment and health for European cities in the 21st century: Making a difference.

Healthy cities: The evidence and what to do with it (2017)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L. (2017). Healthy cities: The evidence and what to do with it. Urban Design -New Series-, 142, 20-22

Laurence Carmichael shows how urban designers can help improve wellbeing

Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Black, D., Ige, J., Pilkington, P., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Hunt, A., …Ogilvie, F. (2017, February). Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making. Presented at The Sustainable Transport & Health Summit, Bristol

This document presents an overview of a three-year pilot funded by the Wellcome Trust an initiated in 2016. The project has three main strands of work- systematic reviews of evidence linking the quality of urban form to human health impacts, an econo... Read More about Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making.

House of Lords: Revised transcript of evidence taken before The Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment (2016)
Other
The Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/built-environment/publications/

The document is a transcript of evidence taken before The Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment Inquiry on BUILT ENVIRONMENT. The three Witnesses were: Dr Laurence Carmichael, Co-ordinator, WHO Collaborating Centre for Heal... Read More about House of Lords: Revised transcript of evidence taken before The Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment.

Towards the sixth ministerial conference on environment and health: Which role for cities and sub-national level of government (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Carmichael, L. (2016, December). Towards the sixth ministerial conference on environment and health: Which role for cities and sub-national level of government. Paper presented at Environment and health for European cities in the 21st century: Making a difference - Stakeholders consultation, Utrecht, The Netherlands

This presentation introduces the background document: environment and health for European cities in the 21st century: making a difference". The document itself will be launched at the 6th ministerial conference on environment and health, in Ostrava,... Read More about Towards the sixth ministerial conference on environment and health: Which role for cities and sub-national level of government.

Putting the pieces together in Reuniting Planning and Health – Lessons from an ESRC seminar series (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Carmichael, L. (2016, December). Putting the pieces together in Reuniting Planning and Health – Lessons from an ESRC seminar series. Presented at Launch event of the Town & Country Planning Special Edition on Planning for Health, TCPA, London

Invited presentation for the Launch event of the Town & Country Planning special edition on planning for health, 1st December 2016, TCPA London

Report of the ESRC roundtable: A cross-sector approach to creating healthy cities – Delivering quality housing in post-Brexit Britain, Houses of Parliament 1st November 2016 (2016)
Presentation / Conference
carmichael, L., ogilvie, F., & Lock, K. (2016, December). Report of the ESRC roundtable: A cross-sector approach to creating healthy cities – Delivering quality housing in post-Brexit Britain, Houses of Parliament 1st November 2016. Paper presented at ESRC roundtable: A cross-sector approach to creating healthy cities – Delivering quality housing in post-Brexit Britain, Houses of Parliament

This report presents the findings of a roundtable held in the Houses of Parliament on 1st November 2016 with stakeholders, policy-makers in the development process and planning policies in the UK and researchers. The roundtable part of an ESRC spons... Read More about Report of the ESRC roundtable: A cross-sector approach to creating healthy cities – Delivering quality housing in post-Brexit Britain, Houses of Parliament 1st November 2016.

Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series (2016)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Lock, K., Sweeting, D., Townshend, T., & Fischer, T. B. (2016). Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 85(11), 461-464

The article looks at the lessons on the health and planning evidence base, evidence-sharing and integration that have been emerging from an ESRC seminar series on reuniting health and planning bringing together academics and planning and public healt... Read More about Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series.

2016Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems for people and planet: Partnerships to jointly deliver on the environmental dimension of Agenda 2030 (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Carmichael, L. (2016, April). 2016Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems for people and planet: Partnerships to jointly deliver on the environmental dimension of Agenda 2030. Presented at Preparing for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA2), London, UK

Preparing for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA2) The paper contributes to a meeting of the UN Stakeholder forum in London addressing the healthy planet, healthy people agenda. Is this the time for a major global push forward on sec... Read More about 2016Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems for people and planet: Partnerships to jointly deliver on the environmental dimension of Agenda 2030.

National and local initiatives for closer working between planning and health (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Carmichael, L. (2016, April). National and local initiatives for closer working between planning and health. Presented at Fuse (Centre for translational research in public health) Quarterly Research Meetings: reuniting planning and health, Fuse (Centre for translational research in public health), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

This is a presentation for the fourth ESRC seminar on “Reuniting Planning and Health” held on 7 April 2016, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Re-uniting Planning and Health: tackling the implementation gaps in evidence, governance and knowledge, funded by... Read More about National and local initiatives for closer working between planning and health.

Briefing for design commission evidence session 2: Health and wellbeing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Carmichael, L. (2015, October). Briefing for design commission evidence session 2: Health and wellbeing. Presented at All Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group: Evidence Session, Houses of Parliament, London, UK

Briefing Notes and Context The debate about the extent to which, and in what ways, our behaviour is affected by the built environment is not new. Whilst we might use emerging technology, visualising techniques and different data streams to extrapol... Read More about Briefing for design commission evidence session 2: Health and wellbeing.