About Healthy Places

Key points

  • CDC's Healthy Places website provides information on healthy community design.
  • Access tools and resources about community design and creating activity-friendly places to improve health where people live, learn, work, play, and worship.
A city street, bike lane, and wide sidewalk.

Overview

Healthy places are those areas designed and built to improve the quality of life for all people. These include individuals who live, learn, work, play, and worship within the areas' borders. Healthy places provide people opportunities to make choices amid various healthy, available, accessible, and affordable options.

Tools and resources

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Key Topics Related to Community Design
Learn about key topics related to community design.
Cyclist in a bike lane in a large downtown area. A person is also walking nearby on a sidewalk.
Health Planning Tools
Learn about tools that can be used to create healthy places.
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Content Source:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)