Resources

Vision Zero & Safe Routes to School Intersection Analysis Resource Sheets

At the Intersection of Public Health & Transportation: Promoting Healthy Transportation Policy
This report provides evidence-based information about how transportation policy and practice affect public health.

Assessing the San Diego County Food System: Indicators for a More Food Secure Future
This assessment is the product of collaboration among a unique coalition of government, public health, social service, environment, and agriculture experts from throughout San Diego County and is intended to serve as a catalyst for community-based policy change. In particular, the goal of this document is to examine the overall viability of the food system in San Diego County and to identify key steps necessary to strengthen the foundation for a thriving local food system.

Be a Healthy City with a Healthy Workforce
Preventable chronic diseases account for more than 75% of all healthcare expenditures. Health care and lost productivity from overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity cost California more than $41 billion in 2006. This fact sheet offers ideas for policies that cities can adopt to create healthier food and physical activity environments for their employees.

Getting to Grocery: Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Neighborhoods
Most cities would like to attract and develop healthy food retail, but they face many challenges. This guide offers an understanding of building and leveraging economic development strategies and partnerships that can help communities advance their healthy food retail goals.

Guide to SD Legislators

How to Create and Implement Healthy General Plans: A Toolkit for Building Healthy, Vibrant Communities
A community’s general plan, or land use policy, can be a tool to help guide development for improved community health. This toolkit provides advice and strategies on how to include health-supporting policies in general plans and how to create partnerships to facilitate policy implementation.

Parks for Everyone: Green Access for San Diego County
The San Diego Foundation released the Parks for Everyone report to highlight the disparities that exist in the San Diego region with respect to access to green space. The report, spearheaded by The City Project and The San Diego Foundation, uses geographic, demographic, and economic data to map and assess the overall accessibility of the region’s green space. In addition, the report examines the equity of green space access by analyzing whether certain groups of people, based on income level, race, or ethnicity, have more or less access to these resources.

Promoting Healthy Communities and Reducing Childhood Obesity: Legislative Options
This report summarizes state legislation proposed and passed in two broad policy categories: (1) policy approaches aimed at nutrition and physical activity in schools and (2) community design and access  to healthy food.

Recipes for Change: Healthy Food in Every Community
This resource outlines organizational practices and public policies to expand access to healthy foods in support of healthy eating and better overall health, particularly in low-income neighborhoods.

The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America
This report demonstrates that transportation policy and land use policies affect the health, environmental and economic needs of the country. It provides recommendations for forward-thinking transportation policies, which must promote healthy, green, safe, accessible, and affordable ways of getting where we need to go.

2015 Regional Walk Scorecard
Circulate San Diego’s Regional Walk Scorecard measures the walkability of San Diego cities based on their scores in these four areas: status of walking index, policies, implementation, and BestWALK field data.

Walk Audit instructions in English and Spanish

Sample walk audits

White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President: Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation (May 2010)
This report outlines 70 policy and environmental actions that can be taken by private and public agencies, including the federal government, and families to significantly reduce childhood obesity. The plan follows the pillars of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign: (1) empowering parents and caregivers; (2) providing healthy foods in schools; (3) improving access to healthy, affordable foods; and (4) increasing physical activity.