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?