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Reporting on

the Built Environment and Health

@TaunyaEnglish

WHYY Radio, NewsWorks.org

Beyond the doctor’s office

Oh, the places you’ll go

Credit and apologies to Dr. Seuss

Kick-off questions

Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity - New York Times, April 2012

Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work? - Washington Post, June 2012

Hunger experts, meeting in Phila., stew over ‘food deserts’ - Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 2011

Kids buy cheap snacks at the corner store - WHYY, October 2009

Kick-off questions

“It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.”– Dr. Seuss

New “health care” sounds

Knock at the door

Mass Transit

Public Housing

Understanding the sector

A different kind of practitioner

City and transit planners

Social workers

Population health scholars

Housing advocates


Courtesy Jennifer Culhane, MPH, PHD – Drexel University

Naming the series

http://www.newsworks.org/designsonhealth





Understanding maps

Tools of the trade

GIS

Neighborhood data sets

• Crime stats

• Air quality reports

• Birth, death records

• School attendance, delinquency

• Noise complaints

• Vacant lots, abandoned buildings

Understanding maps

Esri Health GIS Conference

Institute on GIS and Public Health

Understanding maps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6d0By7GhE

Institute on GIS and Public Health

Amy Hillier, PennDesign



What I learned from Charlie Branas, Cartographic Modeling Lab

Maps can be misleading

What I learned from Dennis Culhane, Cartographic Modeling Lab

Neighborhood effects

physical distance social distance

The series

What matters in a neighborhood?

Walkability

• The WISH Study Walkability’s Impact on Senior Health

• NIH funded

• Philadelphia Corp. for Aging

Walkability

“Broken sidewalks, streetlights that change to fast for an older adult to get across … bus stops where there’s no place to sit down. Neighborhoods that are nice and kempt and lovely but it’s blocks and blocks to get to a grocery or a market.” - researcher Allen Glicksman

Walkability

The series


Home

• Multi-family smoking policies

• Mold, water damage

• Dust mites, roaches, pests

• Crowded living conditions

• Proximity to traffic, car pollution

Home

"If you are talking about some of the poorer patients, you can't just pick yourself up and leave. You are where you are, and if you have neighbors on both sides, who might not keep up their home-- and you do--you are impacted by them.” - pediatrician Hal Byke

The series


Mass transit

Parks, places to play

Bike lanes

But, what’s enough?

HIA – Health Impact Assessment

Mass transit

Proposal: Spend $400M to extend subway

(and get workers out of their cars)

Mass transit

Mass transit

• Three pix from video footage glaxo, urban, young workers

Detours, dead ends

“Sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.” – Dr. Seuss

Detours, dead ends

Goal: Launch a new conversation about the power of place and the influence of neighborhood on health.

✖ #placehealth

✔ #builtenvironment ✔ #hia

“Creating a nonorganic hashtag may be the hardest thing ever.” -- Don Henry, WHYY Director of Digital News

Does it work?

Taunya: A: “We don’t know yet.”

A: “Stay tuned.”

A: “Experts are tracking … ”

A: “Evidence is mounting.”

Detours, dead ends

Thank You …

Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism

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