There is growing recognition that creating healthy places–neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces–is essential to supporting healthy eating and physical activity behaviors. The documents, briefs, and toolkit, in this section, present a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy, strategy, and program recommendations to create healthy eating and active living environments.

Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments (pdf) offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy, strategy, and program recommendations to realize the vision of healthy people in healthy places. Prevention Institute developed this document for the Convergence Partnership after conducting extensive research and numerous interviews with diverse stakeholders and constituencies. Promising Strategies provides a menu of options for various audiences to advance or expand environmental change and policy strategies.

The Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living (pdf) -- the first of four policy briefs authored by Prevention Institute for the Convergence Partnership -- is part of a larger strategy to identify high impact approaches that will move us closer to our vision of healthy people in healthy places. Click on the Policy Briefs link, on the left, to read more.

The upcoming policy briefs will focus on access to healthy food and physical activity for children.