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ArticleJournal of planning literature2025

Spatial Plans as a Critical Intervention in Improving Population Health. A Discourse Arising from a Health Census Review of the State of Current Local Planning Policy in England.

Michael Chang, Neil Carhart, Rosalie Callway

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Article in Journal of planning literature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael ChangFaculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2756-272X
Neil CarhartFaculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4503-7141
Rosalie CallwayTown and Country Planning Association, London, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S037586/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Planning decisions are dependent on the strength of regulatory instruments. The local plan is a public policy document informing decisions on land-use developments that can have impact on health of future populations. The article reports on a census review of local plans (n = 346) in England. Using content analysis, we found limited resilience with only 126 (36.4%) have links to local health needs, 101 (29.2%) have links to local health strategies, and 129 (37.5%) have a health policy. It is a novel approach to identify the current state of local policies as the starting point for projecting future health outcomes.

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censushealthy planninglocal planspublic healthspatial planning

Identifiers

PMID40831914
PMCPMC7618024

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