ABSTRACT
If health practitioners can get involved with the strategic planning systems and
processes led by local government in their local areas, they can help to ensure
that health is central to the design of their local communities. This may sound
arid and boring, but it really is very important to creating healthy, sustainable,
low-carbon communities! The impacts of climate instability, obesity and other
health challenges should be the focus for health practitioner interaction with
the planning process. The aim should be to get health and climate change
objectives into the key documents, the frameworks and plans, from the outset.
If the original objectives are right then the chance of a good outcome for
