Using healthy community design data to monitor and inform planning and public policy.

Setting: In Ontario, Public Health is mandated to work with municipal partners to inform and collaborate on built environment initiatives. For the Healthy Community Design (HCD) Baseline project, Public Health partnered with three communities (approximately 132,000, 29,000 and 22,000 residents, respectively).

Intervention: The HCD Baseline Project created a baseline of HCD indicators containing spatial data and self-reported behaviour and perception data.