What Makes A Healthy Environment
Wednesday, August 21st 2013  10:00am
Cyberspace, CA

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Communities that lack good access to healthy fresh food likely struggle with significant health problems such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Those same communities often don’t have safe environments for kids to play and for adults to exercise and can suffer from a disproportionate share of substandard housing and environmental hazards. At a time when researchers are mapping connections between physical environment and health, Reporting On Health presents a webinar that explores how environmental and social conditions impact health. What is the latest research on the links between health and physical environment? Can urban design improvements foster better health? If so, where have such efforts occurred and with what outcomes? What is the latest thinking on the impact of food deserts on health? Is it possible for busy physicians to address the social and environmental conditions of everyday life that cause disease? On Wednesday, August 21 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, WHYY Health Reporter Taunya English and Rishi Manchanda, M.D., will help us answer these questions and more. Panelist Bios WHYY Health Reporter Taunya English covers stories from across the Philadelphia region as well as health policy from the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. She has documented the links between nutrition and disease; the changing relationship between doctors and patients; and efforts to give people healthier places to live, work and play. Rishi Manchanda is a physician, public health entrepreneur, and writer. He practices internal medicine and pediatrics and is the lead physician at a primary care clinic for homeless veterans at the Veterans Health Administration in Los Angeles.

Sponsored By:
Annenberg Reporting on Health Fellowship Program