Tools developed to improve how health is taken into account in urban development policies and projects.
For a number of years in France, completely new approaches to environmental health have accompanied local authorities in their way of reflecting upon, developing, renovating and building the city. These were prompted by the framework documents of the National Environmental Health Plans, adapted to a Regional scale (PRSE) and a Departmental scale for Paris (PPSE). They provide new tools to help co-constructed decision making based on a participative, scientific approach that are now being tried out.
The Assessment of the Impact on Health (EIS) is one of the tools available to local authorities aiming to contribute to improving health through the living environment and to fight against the social and territorial health inequalities.
This note aims to provide an overview of the health and urbanism procedures underway, based on an EIS example, the study on the Seine Paper Factory in Nanterre carried out by Apur in 2017.
