Healthy Plans & Best Practices
American Planning Association
- APA Healthy Planning Comprehensive Public Health Plan (evaluation reports): comprehensive overview of sustainable public health community planning
- APA Healthy Plan Making Case Studies and Recommendations: case study analysis and recommendations
- APA Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities: toolkit for implementing healthy practices into community planning
- APA Planning + Community Health Center (general info + links): comprehensive overview of healthy planning, containing links and resources
- APA Planning & Community Health Research Center Comprehensive Planning for Public Health (survey report): report that highlights how best to integrate health with comprehensive planning
CDC
- CDC Best Practices for Community Health Assessment: framework and toolkit for identifying problems within the health of communities, and implementing new practices
- CDC Training Framework for Public Health and Planning: toolkit which provides a framework for integrating planning and public health professional work in to communities
Community and Health Plans
- Alachua County Health Element: comprehensive overview of the public health goals and implementation plans of the Gainesville area
- Complete Streets and Bicycle and Pedestrian Plans: this report, which focuses on implementing walking and cycling infrastructure, is aimed at public health care professionals so as to better understand the design of healthy infrastructure
- Florida State Health Improvement Plan: Florida-specific plan for implementing various health improvement plans
- Hillsborough 2040 Plan (Imagine 2040): award-winning comprehensive plan for the Tampa metropolitan area, which includes an extensive section on public health, as well as more general integrative approaches for community health
- Miami-Dade Health Element: comprehensive overview of the public health goals and implementation plans of the Miami-Dade area
Toolkits & Resources
- Climate Change, Health, and Equity: A Guide for Local Health Departments: how best to institute health-based changes into communities suffering from climate related issues, as well as implementing these changes through policy and education
- Florida Environmental Public Health Tracking: data sets and disease and public health tracker focused on environmental health problems
- Florida Health Charts: Florida assessments, resources, and indicators for a variety of health issues and statistics
- Gehl Institute Inclusive Healthy Places Framework: framework and tool which helps identify the inclusiveness of healthy community spaces
- Healthy Communities (Comprehensive Plan Assessment Tool): checklist and toolkit for incorporating walkable development into communities
- Health in All Policies: Hillsborough County initiative which focuses on collaborative strategy implementation so as to ensure that community stakeholders institute best health practices within all decisions
- NACDD Walkability Action Institute (project resource): comprehensive overview of program for incorporating non-motorized forms of transportation development into communities
- Policies on Pets for Healthy Cities: A Conceptual Framework: A framework to guide local governments’ policies on pets, acknowledging the connections between public health and pets
- WHO Ageing: comprehensive overview and collection of resources, as well as updates on initiatives on healthy aging and living