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The Built Environment: a critical health issue Diana Heggie - CEO Heart Foundation Victoria

Join the Heart Foundation in advocating for amendments to the Planning and Environment Act to ensure health considerations in urban design. Learn practical strategies to encourage physical activity and promote walkable and liveable communities. Make a difference in preventing heart attacks and promoting a healthy lifestyle.

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The Built Environment: a critical health issue Diana Heggie - CEO Heart Foundation Victoria

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  1. The Built Environment: a critical health issueDiana Heggie - CEO Heart Foundation Victoria Smart Urban Futures Forum – MAV and Victoria Walks 25 March 2015

  2. Healthy Lifestyle

  3. Obesity crisis facing Australia 10 years from now

  4. Strategies for change Individual Environment

  5. Sedentary Behaviour

  6. Healthy by Design • Practical guidance to: • Encourage walkable & more liveable communities • Encourage physical activity through quality urban design • Facilitate healthy planning for healthy places • For use with and by: • Local government built environment professionals – planners, transport planners, open space and recreation, health planners, urban design etc • Private practice – including developers • Community organisations

  7. Heart Foundation Local Government Awards

  8. Our Advocacy Amend the Planning and Environment Act to ensure health is a consideration in urban design We are asking the state government to:

  9. You can: • Enter the Local Government Awards – entries close Friday 22 May • Join us in calling for amendments to the Planning Act • Get innovative at the margins…. make a difference • Get information on Healthy by Design email healthylivingvic@heartfoundation.org.au

  10. YES Can a footpath help prevent a heart attack? The way your community is designed can either help or hinder your likelihood of keeping active. A HEALTHY HEART REQUIRES EXCERCISE

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