Canadian Evidence on Built Environment and Health

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Production of this special Supplement has been made possible through financial or in-kind contributions from Health Canada, through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s CLASP initiative, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. We also would like to thank the organizing partners of the workshop titled, Sharing Knowledge – Building Links – Advancing Research, Policy and Practice on the Built Environment, held in Ottawa, March 7-9, 2011. Event partners include: the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. The March 2011 Sharing Knowledge workshop is where the idea of a journal supplement on Canadian built environment and health research first emerged. Further support by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP initiative through Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s funding helped to turn this idea into action. For access to various resources complementary to this Supplement, such as a series of fact sheets summarizing the latest Canadian built environment and health research in lay language, visit the Canadian Institute of Planners Healthy Communities website: www.cip-icu.ca/health The views expressed in this Supplement and related materials represent the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the project funders.