Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice

The built and natural environment, as mediated through the spatial planning system, has an important impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities via a diverse range of social, economic and environmental factors

‘Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice’ sets out the reasons for and the benefits which arise from a reimagined system which reunites spatial planning and public health.

This book makes the case for making health and wellbeing an underpinning organising principle for spatial planning decisions.

It requires an understanding of and working competency in the art of applying planning law, public health knowledge and political and social sciences to implement effective actions with a primary aim to improve public health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.