Healthy Communities

Kentucky's Healthy Communities Initiative seeks to encourage people to be more physically active, eat a healthy diet, and not use tobacco through policy, systems, and environmental changes that improve community's health.

Recommended Strategies

• Create or Enhance Access to Places for Physical Activity.
• Street-Scale Urban Design and Land-Use Policies and Practices.
• Community-Scale Urban Design and Land-Use Policies and Practices.
• Safe Routes to School

Resources

• The Community Guide. The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health
• Community Guide Topic: Physical Activity: State Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Program, Technical Assistance Manual, January 2008. CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, pages 38-54.
• The CDC Healthy Communities Program
• Healthy Community Design
• Influencing the Built Environment in Your Community
• Creating Communities for Active Aging
• Smart Growth America
• National Center for Bicycling and Walking