Health for development decision making: the role of Health Impact Assessment Ed Kirton-Darling from our law intervention team, sets out what we’ve learnt about the use and effectiveness of Health Impact Assessments with tips for getting it right at a local plan level. Moving away from the tick-box How can we help to Read more
Let’s talk about health… Our law lead, John Coggon, highlights why TRUUD interventions for better, fairer health require us to look carefully at definitions of health and its determinants. To get anywhere, we need to get beyond simplistic agreement that ‘health matters’ Health matters. On that, at least most people will agree. But Read more
A systems approach to local spatial planning TRUUD PhD candidate Michael Chang is examining the local planning system to try and solve the mystery of why we create unhealthy living environments, even though we have known about the link between environment and health for many years. We asked Michael about his research and how he Read more
Creating new truths: Understanding power in public health and planning People working in public health and planning want to include health in their plans but feel like they do not have the power to do so was a key theme to arise from TRUUD’s phase one interviews. We asked TRUUD PhD candidate Martha Jordan about Read more