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ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTIONERS: Can you name five characteristics of a walkable community?
The emphasis on the built environment in public health is hard to escape. Conferences, podcasts, webinars.......you name it......there is a discussion concerning getting people to walk more frequently in their daily lives. The task for public health practitioners is to bring evidence to discussions in order to inform decision makers on parks, transportation, and planning boards to consider public health goals in their deliberations.
If asked, anyone working on community health…
ContinueAdded by Marisel Brown on March 16, 2012 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment
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