Healthy development measurement tool

The Healthy Development Measurement Tool (HDMT) is a new approach for evaluating land use planning and urban development with regards to the achievement of human health needs. The HDMT provides a set of metrics of community health for San Francisco, baseline data on these metrics and development targets to assess the extent to which urban development projects and plans can improve community health. The HDMT also provides a range of policy and design strategies that can advance health conditions and resources via the development process.

Background

The HDMT was created by the San Francisco Department of Public Health through a unique collaboration among development stakeholders and public agencies in San Francisco. Using public health to explicitly connect the needs of health and human development to physical and environmental conditions, the HDMT provides a systematic assessment approach to simultaneously consider effects of development on six overarching domains--environmental stewardship, transportation, housing, public infrastructure, public safety, and the economy.