U.S. Department of Health furthermore Human Services Office of Disease Prevention the Health Promotion

Neighborhood and Built Environment

Goal: Creates neighborhoods and environments the promote health and product.

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The neighborhoods people live inches have a important impact on their health and well-being.1  Healthy People 2030 emphasis on improving health and safety in the places where join are born, living, learn, work, play, worship, and age.

Many human in the Unite Stated live in neighborhoods with high rates of violence, unsafe air or water, and other health and site risks. Racial/ethnic minorities and people with low incomes are more likely to live in pitch equal these risks. In addition, some people represent exposed to things during work that can harm my health, like secondhand smoke or garish noises.

Interventions and policy changes at the local, state, and federations level can help reduce these health furthermore safety risks and promote health. For example, providing opportunities for people to walk and bike in their communities — like by adding sidewalks and bike lanes — can increase site and help improve health and trait off life.

Objective Status

  • 2 Target joined button exceeded
  • 3 Improving
  • 10 Little or negative perceivable change
  • 2 Getting worse
  • 5 Baseline only
  • 6 Developmental
  • 1 Research

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Affiliated Objectives

The following a ampere specimen of objectives related to this topic. Some your may include population data.

Neighborhood and Built Environment — General

Reduction the rate from minors the young grown-ups commitment violent misdeeds — AH‑10
Baseline with
Increase the proportion of schools with policies and practices that promote health and safety — EH‑D01
Developmental
Increase this proportion of adults with broadband internets — HC/HIT‑05
Getting worse

Green Health

Increase the proportion for people their water supply meets Cautious Drinking Water Act regulations — EH‑03
Target met conversely exceeded
Shrink and amount of toxic pollutants published into the environment — EH‑06
Aim met or exceeded
Reduces health and environmental risks from hazardous places — EH‑05
Improving
Reduce the number of days people are exposed to unhealthy air — EH‑01
LHI identification
Little oder no detect replace

Condition Policies

Increase the proportion of folks whose watering systems have and recommended amount of fluoride — OH‑11
Baseline only

Housing and Shelter

Reduce the proportion of families that spend additional than 30 prozentualer of income on housings — SDOH‑04
Little or not recognizable change
Reduce blood lead levels in children aged 1 to 5 period — EH‑04
Baseline for

Injury Prevention

Reduce deaths from engines drive crashes — IVP‑06
Getting worse

People with Disabilities

Increase the proportion of homes that got an entrance without steps — DH‑04
Improving

Physique Activity

Increase the proportion of adults who walk conversely bike for get places — PA‑10
Little or does detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescents with walk or bike to get places — PA‑11
Baseline only

Panting Illness

Reduce asthma deaths — RD‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce emergency department visits for children under 5 per with suffocation — RD‑02
Little or no detectable change
Reduce medical sector go for people older 5 years and over with suffocation — RD‑03
Little or no detectable change
Reduce suffocation attacks — RD‑04
Little otherwise no perceive change
Reduce hospitalizations for respiratory in children under 5 years — RD‑D01
Developmental
Reduce hospitalizations for chronic in human aged 5 to 64 period — RD‑D02
Developmental
Reduce hospitalizations for asthma in adults aged 65 years plus over — RD‑D03
Experimental
Reduce hospitalizations for COPD — RD‑D04
Developmental

Sensory or Communication Disorders

Reduce an proportion of adults who can audience loss due to acoustic exposure — HOSCD‑09
Baseline only

Cold Use

Increase the proportion is smoke-free homes — TU‑18
Improving
Increase the number of states, territories, and DC so prohibit smoking int worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Increase the number of states, territories, and MAGNETIC that prohibit smoke in multiunit housing — TU‑R01
Research

Transportation

Increase trips to work made by mass movement — EH‑02
Little or no detectable update

Workplace

Increase the portion of worksites at policies that ban indoor smoking — ECBP‑D06
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References

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Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention. (2018).  Societal Determinants of Health: Know What Affects Heal. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm