Land Use and Community Engagement for Public Health

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Land Useand Community Engagementfor Public
Health

• Bruce Bragg, MPH, Director
• Ingham County Health Department
• Lansing, Michigan

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Objectives

• Describe Michigans Capital Area
• Show changes in land use over time
• Describe regional growth study
• Describe public health efforts to engage and
  empower community
• Propose important synergy opportunity between
  public health processes and land use planning

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Population Shifts
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Residential Change 1978-1999
1978
1999
N
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Regional Vision
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Michigan Public Health Code
prevent and control disease and environmental
hazards
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Documents

• Health Status of the Capital Area 1993
• Health Risk Behaviors 1995
• Health and Health Care 1995
• Preliminary Statement of Uninsured 1995
• Perceptions of Health and Healthcare 1997
• Update on Uninsured 1998
• Personal Healthcare Costs 2000
• Surface and Groundwater Resources 2000
• Action Plan for and Organized System of Care
  2000
• Land Use and Health 2002
• Indoor Air Quality 2002
• The Power of We 2002

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Documents - 2004

• Environmental Health Assessment
• Health Status of Ingham County
• The Power of We 2nd Edition
• Social Capital of Capital Community

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Community EngagementThe Power of We
The Power of We is a new, broader look at
community well being, first released in the fall
of 2002.
Indicators on
Intellectual and Social Development
Economy
Health
Safety
Environment
Community Life
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Land Use and Health Resource Team

• Local Public Health
• Tri-County Regional Planning Commission
• African American Health Institute
• MSU Extension
• MSU Departments of Community Agriculture,
  Recreation and Resource Studies, Urban Planning,
  Criminal Justice, Public Policy, Remote Sensing
• State Public Health Agency
• City planners, architects, land developer

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Resource TeamInformation Base

• Land use trends
• Air and water quality
• Auto and pedestrian injuries
• Crime
• Physical activity
• Social capital surveys
• Health behavior surveys
• Aerial photographs
• Other

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Summary

• Land use affects human health
• Public health mission through land use
• Public health methodologies
• Community engagement
• Community empowerment
• Information dissemination
• Public health seek out land use planners
• Land use planners see out public health