HIA in the News: "Built to Heal"
November 2, 2009
"With a steeper poverty rate, lower life expectancy, and higher rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and asthma than the rest of the county that surrounds it, West Oakland probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind when thinking about healthy places to live.
But the area is one of several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area where community groups, city officials and project developers are pioneering the use of Health Impact Assessment as a way to calculate the health effects of land-use decisions, with the goal of promoting health and mitigating negative impacts..."
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