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"Smart Growth" and Public Health

Speaker:
Don Chen, Director, Smart Growth America

Program Description:
The Smart Growth movement is an effort to address the impact of development on quality of life. Rather than continuing with existing trends that promote suburban sprawl and move people away from community centers, Smart Growth seeks to restore community, preserve open space and foster economic development. The Smart Growth movement, with its emphasis on creating community environments that allow for and even promote physical activity as part of our daily lives, is particularly important to public health. In this program, Don Chen, Director of Smart Growth America, focuses on the implications of this new development trend for public health activities that address both environmental and chronic disease concerns.

Objectives:
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

• Describe the Smart Growth movement
• Describe the connection between sprawl and public health.

Satellite broadcast originally aired December 20, 2001.

This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 1.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 5RLL8T-PRV-04-004.

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.