ArticleHealth & place2023
Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making.
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- Municipal officials' perspectives on challenges and opportunities in shaping urban built environments for active living in Thailand: a qualitative study.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Development and optimisation of an intervention to increase the intention to act on health and health equity within the private sector of urban development: an evidence, theory and Person-Based Approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Stakeholder analysis in urban-planetary health research: The Key Group Approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Constructing causal loop diagrams from large interview data sets.System dynamics review · 2024Article
- Integrating Health into Local Plans: A Comparative Review of Health Requirements for Urban Development in Seven Local Planning Authorities in England.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- 'Harnessing the power of the law': a qualitative analysis of the legal determinants of health in English urban planning and recommendations for fairer and healthier decision-making.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tackling complex system challenges like creating healthy environments requires understanding priorities and structures affecting multiple actors. This qualitative study, involving 132 multi-sectoral stakeholders spanning the urban development decision-making system, explores how to influence healthier place-making. Using thematic analysis we develop themes around competing stakeholder priorities; structural 'rules' and influential relationships; and justifying a focus on health, requiring greater clarity and consensus around definitions of 'healthy' urban development. Building on the socio-ecological model we highlight how a multi-faceted approach is required for change at multiple levels in the complex system to target individual actor motivations, organisational priorities and structural 'rules'.
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