Designing Healthy Communities by Richard J Jackson

Designing Healthy Communities by Richard J Jackson

This companion to the PBS series provides deep insights into the need to improve our built environment, while providing tools for readers to effect similar positive change in their own communities.

“Though intended as a companion to a four-part TV series he is hosting on PBS stations, the book stands on its own very wellThough professionals of many stripes can learn from Designing Healthy Communities, its greatest strength is likely to lie in energizing and educating a broad public — readers described by Dr. Jackson as “those of us who are concerned about our communities and the world we are giving to our children.” – Better Cities/Towns, February 2012.

“It’s called the ‘built environment’ and if you’re a public health whiz, you know exactly what that means. If you don’t, Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of UCLA’s Environmental Health Sciences Department believes it’s critical you do.” – The California Report health blog, KQED (San Francisco)

“An admirer of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Dr. Jackson argues that such details of daily life make existence worthwhile. And that is what “Designing Healthy Communities” is all about.” – Reporting on Health (USC Annenberg)

“The new book, “Designing Healthy Communities,” says: ‘When there is nearly nothing within walking distance to interest a young person and it is near-lethal to bicycle, he or she must relinquish autonomy — a capacity every creature must develop just as much as strength and endurance.’” – New York Times, January, 31, 2012

Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles. He is former California State Health Officer and for nine years was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta.

Stacy Sinclair, EdD, is director of education for Media Policy Center in Santa Monica, California, which produced the documentary Designing Healthy Communities. She also is cofounder of EdExcellence Consulting, Inc.

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ISBN 13	9781118033661
ISBN 10	1118033663
Title	Designing Healthy Communities
Author	Richard J Jackson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Jossey-Bass
Year published	2011-12-16
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.