Designing Health Communities  is the companion book for the upcoming PBS broadcast that describes how the design of the built environment impacts our health, with an additional emphasis on the inequities of social and environmental justice. Dr. Richard Jackson explores how the built environment has contributed to the fact that two-thirds of Americans are overweight, 70 million are obese and many suffer from an array of other chronic but preventable diseases. The book and series looks upstream at the root causes of our malaise, and highlight actionable best practices based on real people with real solutions. See also Evaluating Public and Community Health Programs and Healthy and Safe Homes: Research, Practice, and Policy

Co-published with Jossey-Bass, this book is available for order now, but will ship October, 2011. Look for a book signing with Dr. Jackson at the APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.