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Urban Planning for Health Equity Must Employ an Intersectionality Framework

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Urban planning for health equity should be guided by an intersectional approach. Intersectionality is an essential framework for understanding the multiple overlapping factors, such as social and economic inequalities, that produce health disparities. We offer four strategies that planning researchers and practitioners can use to develop and integrate an intersectional approach into planning for health equity: challenging implicit and explicit assumptions, building cross-sectoral coalitions united by a shared vision for social and environmental justice, applying transdisciplinary and co-designing approaches throughout the planning process, and using existing tools to evaluate the impact of programs and policies on advancing health equity.

Source: Journal of the American Planning Association

DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2079550

Authors: Patrice C. Williams, Andi Binet, Dana M. Alhasan, Nyree M. Riley, Chandra L. Jackson

Institutions: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Justice and Health Disparities

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences