22 Dec
2021
22 Dec
'21
2:48 p.m.
National Public Health Assessment Model Application (N-PHAM)
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*We wish you a wonderful holiday season! – Everyone at Urban Design 4
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It has been a challenging, but interesting and incredibly rewarding year
for us with the completion of several novel projects and the start of some
exciting new initiatives.
Our innovative, evidence-based and objectively-measured data and tools are
used to promote human health, social equity, environmental resilience, and
economic development. Let us know if you would like to discuss ways UD4H
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Newsletter Overview
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- Genesee-Finger Lakes (NY) Public Health Assessment Model
- Developing New Published Evidence – 2 UD4H journal articles
Project Highlight: Genesee-Finger Lakes (NY) Public Health Assessment Model
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UD4H created a localized version of its *National Public Health Assessment
Model (N-PHAM)*
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for the *Genesee Transportation Council* (Rochester, NY). N-PHAM uses the
latest demographic and built environment data to estimate *chronic disease
prevalence and physical activity*. This decision support software, being
developed with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
has *nationwide
coverage* and is the starting point for *evaluating the health impacts of
future alternative investments*.
The City of Rochester's Inner Loop North is an aged, below-grade, and
*neighborhood
dividing freeway.* The Genesee-Finger Lakes version of N-PHAM was used to
estimate the health impact of replacing it with more *walkable communities*,
increased *mixed land use* and access to *greenspace*.
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Baseline Type 2 diabetes prevalence for the Inner Loop North study area
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Average predicted health outcomes for the most aggressive, but viable land
use change scenario
N-PHAM Applications
- Genesee-Finger Lakes (NY) Public Health Assessment Model
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for Genesee Transportation Council
- Las Vegas Transportation Health Study
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for the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
- Health Equity Study using N-PHAM with Envision Tomorrow
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for the San Joaquin Council of Governments in metropolitan Stockton, CA
- Health Assessment of the City of Grand Rapids
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for Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc.
- Community Health Assessment for the Houston I-45 Freeway Expansion Area
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for Air Alliance Houston
Recent Publications
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Continuing its role as a groundbreaking research enterprise, *UD4H*
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has
published two recent journal articles*.*
*1. * *Neighborhood-Level COVID-19 Hospitalizations & Mortality
Relationships with Built Environment, Active & Sedentary Travel*
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in
*Health & Place*
- Completed by UD4H using the *National Environmental Database (NED)
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supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Findings from King County, WA: i.) More mixed land use and greater
pedestrian-oriented street connectivity are correlated with *lower
COVID-19 hospitalization/fatality rates*, ii.) Greater time spent in
cars correlates with* higher COVID-19 hospitalization/mortality*
*2. * *International Evaluation of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian
Streetscapes (MAPS) Global Instrument*
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in
*International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity*
- Compares the use of *online imagery and in-field data collection* to
conduct a remote, centralized collection of microscale streetscape data in
five study regions: *1) Melbourne, Australia, 2) Ghent, Belgium, 3)
Curitiba, Brazil, 4) Hong Kong, China, and 5) Valencia, Spain*
- Completed as part of a wider body of work produced by the *International
Physical Activity & the Environment Network (IPEN)
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- Findings: Online imagery can be *equally effective to audit the
pedestrian environment* by auditors who live in, as well as outside the
country, and doing so has good reliability with observations completed by
people in-field walking along the street segments
Read more of our publications
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Let us know if you would like to discuss ways UD4H can help you to
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*Contact us
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for more information.*
Dr. Lawrence Frank, President, and the UD4H Team
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