EP 124 - Cities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: Healthy Cities, Healthy People

Our built environment includes all the human made physical spaces around us. It defines the spaces in which we live, work or play. These include our buildings, furnishings, open and public spaces, roads, utilities and other infrastructure. These structures and spaces affect our health by bringing pollutants into our environments and restricting our access to physical activity, transportation and social interactions. The built environment influences a person’s life and probably all activity. Built environment lead to poor health outcomes including chronic diseases and cancer. How our communities are planned, designed and built can have a major influence on our health. Today in the age of chronic diseases there remains an important connection between population health and the built environment and joining us to help us further understand the dangers is Professor Dr. Sacoby Wilson, researcher in community engagement and environmental justice at University of MD.

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