141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

294648
Integration of health, transportation, and land use planning


Monday, November 4, 2013 : 8:30 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.

Theresa Heaton, MPH, BSN, Kane County Health Department, Aurora, IL
This session will describe the integration of health, transportation, and land use planning, how partnership where effectively used to launch and implement the Fit Kids 2020 Plan, and how to create the CHIP and strategically use small grants to fund projects to effect changes to the built environment that improve community health.

Learning Areas:

Environmental health sciences
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Describe how Kane County formally integrated health, land use, and transportation into a comprehensive master plan update. Describe how small grants provided real changes to the built environment that improve community health.

Keyword(s): Environment

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I direct the health promotion initiatives of the Kane County Health Department including the use of planning and policy to guide system and environmental change in order to improve population health for residents of our county.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 3007.0: Kane County Strategies for Improving the Built Environment