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The built environment,
climate change and health
Professor Anthony Capon
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU
Healthy Built Environments Program, UNSW
WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE BICENTENNAL PARK
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ABS estimates
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An urbanising landscape
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Phases of concern about cities and health
19th Century – rapid urbanisation and epidemics of
infections and respiratory disease
Edwin Chadwick: Health of Towns movement
Other phases of concern:
Garden Cities Ebenezer Howard
WHO Healthy Cities Leonard Duhl, Trevor Hancock
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Contemporary urban health challenges
Sedentary way of life – transport, work, recreation
Obesity arises from an energy imbalance – too much in, too little
out
Obesity and chronic disease are consequences of maladaptation
to the ready availability (and low cost) of fossil fuel energy
Need integrative ways of understanding – somatic and extrasomatic energy flows in cities
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2006 AAS Fenner Conference
Urbanism, Environment and Health
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Framework for urban sustainability and population health
Urban ecological footprint
Economy and
work
Transport and
urban form
Housing and
buildings
Nature and
landscape
Media and
communication
Culture and
spirituality
Food security
Physical activity
Safety
Family
relationships
Social capital
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Human health and wellbeing
Air, water, noise,
infection, chemical
exposures, local
climate
Boyden’s biosensitivity triangle
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Co-benefits for health
Lancet Series on Health and Climate Change
http://www.thelancet.com/series/health-and-climate-change
Low-carbon ways of living are healthy ways of living
Energy generation
Mobility
Food choices
Housing
2010 AAS Fenner Conference
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/226/paper/NB10032.htm
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Healthy Built Environments Program
UNSW Cities Futures Research Centre
A/Prof Susan Thompson
NSW Health Department funding
1. Education and workforce capacity
2. Policy- and practice-relevant research
3. Leadership and advocacy
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http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2010/hud_checklist.html
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New book
Aug 2011
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