Leveraging the Built Environment for Health Equity

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The report details 13 evidence-backed, built environment interventions to advance health equity. It focuses on 6 domains: safe/affordable housing, active living assets and facilities, regional/local infrastructure, food security and nutrition, vacant property reclamation and urban greening, and neighborhood and community design. The report ranks each intervention by strong, moderate, or weak evidence.

Resource Details

  • Setting/Context of Implementation: Community
  • Topics of Practice: Policy Change/ Development
  • Outcomes of Interest: Advancing Racial Equity|Reduction of Health Disparities
  • Level of Evidence: Promising
  • Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
  • Social Determinants of Health: Economic Stability|Neighborhood and Built Environment|Social and Community Context
  • Outside of US: No