Healthy Spaces, Healthy Places David Charles Sloane SPPD, USC October 21, 2004.

Healthy Spaces, Healthy Places

David Charles Sloane

SPPD, USCOctober 21, 2004

An Inequitable and Evolving Health Care System

Three Projects:• Medicine Moves to the Mall

• B Conant Sloane: Johns Hopkins University Press (2003)

• Diminishing Health Disparities• CDC funded CHC’s African Americans Building a Legacy of

Healthy

• History of Children’s Hospitals

Medicine Moves to the Mall

• Dartmouth Hitchcock Med Ctr.

The Mall Moves to Medicine

• Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles

Medicine Moves to the Mall

Advertising for Health, Offering Healthy Options

• Surveyed 348 restaurants in target area, 311 in comparison area

• Target restaurants advertise more, while comparison restaurants advertise healthier options

• Comparison restaurants offer healthier preparations, healthier choices, opportunity to substitute healthier options

St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Care to ride in the balloon?