Urban Health

Urban health: good practices for health impact assessment of urban and environmental regeneration and redevelopment interventions

Stefano Capolongo (Principal Investigator)

The project aimed to develop and disseminate to decision-makers good practices, based on Health Impact Assessment models, literature and case studies, to guide urban policies to produce improved healthy ageing, with a focus on equity in urban regeneration programmes for suburbs.

Contribution to SDGs: 3, 11

DABC Activities
• Application of a qualitative-quantitative assessment tool capable of providing effective and flexible support in defining the implications for healthy aging of new urban interventions and/or redevelopment of peripheral areas of the city. • Review and synthesis of the literature on the impact that urban redevelopment and regeneration interventions have on healthy aging and its social distribution.
Partners
Dipartimento di Igiene e Prevenzione Sanitaria, Agenzia di Tutela della Salute di Bergamo (ATS-BG) - Regione Lombardia (coordinatore), ASL TO3 - Torino, SCaDU Servizio Sovrazonale di Epidemiologia - AUSL Toscana Nordovest, ASL Taranto - Dipartimento di Prevenzione

Publications

Manual for the assessment of public health aspects of urban plans and programs