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1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in 🇨🇦: our built environment has a significant impact on our health - when designed well these spaces can help to improve our physical and mental health.
2/5 When the physical spaces where we live, work, study and play are designed with public health in mind, they can benefit our mental health; access to exercise, nutrition and healthcare; and exposure to infectious diseases. #BuildUp
3/5 #GOC’s recently announced Canada Healthy Communities Initiative aims to help governments and community partners advance the goal of healthier living environments during the #COVID19 pandemic.
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1/5 Healthy environments isn’t a new concept in #publichealth. Over the last century, improving sanitation, infrastructure planning, and addressing residential overcrowding reduced infectious disease rates in Canada and elsewhere.
2/5 Even now, in the midst of the #COVID19 pandemic, we see examples of municipal leadership adapting city infrastructure in ways that encourage outdoor social and physical activities. #HealthyCommunities #BuiltEnvironment #BuildUp
3/5 During #COVID19 many communities have closed selected streets to traffic, allowing pedestrians and cyclists to exercise outdoors safely. #HealthyCommunities #BuiltEnvironment #Innovation
1/4 #GOC Canada Healthy Communities Initiative will provide funding to small-scale, local projects that help adapt public spaces and places to the healthy living needs of their communities during these unprecedented times.
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2/4 As I noted in my first annual report as Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, changes to our built environment can help us prevent chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease and also improve our mental wellbeing.
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3/4 While specific projects will vary based on community needs and proposals, they will share a common objective: to ensure physical and social environments enable us to easily, and accessibly, follow #publichealth measures...
