Future Health - sustainable places for health and well-being report launched (Cabe Nov 09)

Drawing on examples and research, Future health shows how good planning can have a positive impact on public health, how health trusts can cut carbon and costs by co-locating services, and how designers can influence people's well-being.  Download the report by visiting the resources page or the Cabe website.

Future health tells us how good design makes healthy places. It brings what CABE has learned about sustainable, health-promoting environments together with the latest thinking about health and well-being. It uses real examples and research to point out the win-wins that can happen across the health, well-being and sustainability agendas, and tells us why and how:

• Planners can have long-term positive effects on public health, for example through supporting green infrastructure and sustainable transport networks
• Healthcare trusts can bring down carbon footprints and reduce costs by integrating and co-locating health and community services
• Designers and health estates managers can influence peoples’ wellbeing through sustainable design
• Policymakers can help truly healthy, sustainable communities happen by emphasising the wholelife value of early and integrated decision-making.