CEO, Playful Chartered Engineer, Design Lecturer and Play scholar on a mission to enable equitable, sustainable access to play and design
One way to encourage the creation of healthy spaces of children is to ‘Promote the social determinants of health: through child-responsive social infrastructure, green spaces, safer streets, urban farming and gardening, and slum upgrading’ Thank you Sudeshna Chatterjee for providing this as one of your strategic recommendations for creating healthy places for children. With a growing need to demonstrate how we can improve health and fight climate change. #parisagreement It’s very important to promote these social determinants of health when creating play spaces. For designers, urban planners and developers to demonstrate the impact of local designing and providing social and natural spaces to play have on these crucial determinants. Three categories I think are particularly relevant are below. 1)Neighbourhood and physical health. 2) #Education 3) Community and social context With #socialdeterminants such as; #communityengagement #earlychildhood #vocationaltraining #playgrounds #socialintegration #stress Play can lead to great outcomes such as improved health #wellbeing. As well as reduced #morbidity and functional limitations. So let’s keep aligning the impact of our work with them.
Urbanist | Program Director | Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist | Published Author | Keynote Speaker | Non-Profit Founder working at the intersection of environment, urbanization and development
Here is a blog I wrote based on my paper "Healthy public spaces for children within neighbourhoods through urban transformations" published in Cities & Health WRI India WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Cities4Children - The Global Alliance Cities & Health UNICEF World Health Organization UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Thomas George Sarah Sabry, PhD Marcus Grant Simon Battisti Petra Marko Maria Vassilakou Robyn Monro Miller AM Helen Woolley Tim Gill Anupama Nallari Robin Moore Nilda Cosco, PhD Madhav Pai Rogier van den Berg Roger Hart Kate Bishop Lubaina Rangwala Jaya Dhindaw Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta Siddharth Agarwal Anjali Mahendra Robin King #UrbanHealth #Cities4Health #HealthyCities #PublicHealth #BuiltEnvironment #Children #UrbanTransformations #UrbanPlanning #ChildFriendly #Cities #Neighbourhoods #ChildrensHealth #PublicSpaces #Equity
