Developed for The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities sites, this guide provides up-to-date approaches and examples of how to create built environments that support health, equity and safety. Particular attention is paid to planning and redevelopment processes, opportunities and challenges.

This document describes how The Healthy Places Coalition advances public health involvement in land use and transportation planning to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life.

There's growing recognition of the ways neighborhood design and community conditions shape health and wellbeing. The Healthy Places Coalition advances public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote health and safety. The Healthy Places Principles outline how the Coalition aims to accomplish this goal.

This document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities. The profiles demonstrate how health practitioners, community members and many others can work together to improve community well-being by making changes to the built environment.

Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention practice through a range of social and health issues, including chronic disease, HIV, violence, and mental health.

This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that frames current issues related to traffic safety, mobility, and aging, including the examination of factors that influence transportation options and use, and efforts and strategies for enhancing safe mobility for seniors.

This document provides guidance for fostering the growing momentum around improving nutrition and physical activity environments in socially and economically disadvantaged urban communities.

A Prevention Institute report and tool is featured in this analysis of national efforts to address health disparities and what can be learned from successful social movements.

This article explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.

This report focuses on indicators associated with community factors and how indicator reports and report cards can support community efforts to improve health.