Uniting Health Psychology and Planning
Masterson, D. 1 (2016). Published in The Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association, 85,11, p499-501
Daniel Masterson explains how efforts to support professional working to reunite health with planning and address the underlying causes of health and ill-health in Stoke-on-Trent have benefited from using behavioural insights from health psychology.
‘The challenge is not simply ingraining health into planning; it is conveying a modern definition of health, establishing how planning can influence the wider determinants of health and health behaviour, and understanding the issues that planners face in prioritising health’
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