"Healthscaping" - Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 7 pm
St. Monica's Church, 831 Genesee Street
Free and open to the Public
Tom Farley, MD, MPH, is the Chairman of the Department of Community Health at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is coauthor of Prescription for a Healthy Nation, in which he argues for changing everyday environments as the best way to prevent the leading causes of death in the 21st century.
At Tulane, he is currently the Director of a CDC-funded Prevention Research Center to study the impact of the physical and social environment on obesity. He teaches courses in public health practice and in policy-based approaches to health promotion. Since Hurricane Katrina struck, he has been working to rebuild New Orleans in ways that promote health.
The Journal of the American Medical Association hailed his "important message that should be shared with everyone" as "perhaps the best solution to this nation's health care woes."
Says Dr. Farley, "In America we spend nearly twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are we among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Something is wrong about the way we are approaching health in the United States. We don't need another health care reform plan, we need a new way to think about health."
Dr. Farley will be coming to Rochester as part of a lecture series co-sponsored by the Medical Center at the University of Rochester, the Rochester Regional Community Design Center and Sector 4 Community Development Corporation.
Dr. Farley will be signing books and presenting a broader discussion of community health issues including childhood obesity on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00 pm at St. Monica's Church located at 831 Monica Street, at the corner of Monica Street.
This event is free and open to the public.
His talk also kicks off a three-day conference, "Design Matters 4: Emergence of Forgotten Neighborhoods," on creative strategies for reclaiming vacant and abandoned properties.
For additional information on the lecture or conference, please contact RRCDC (585) 271-0520, astewart@rrcdc.org, www.rrcdc.org .
St. Monica's Church, 831 Genesee Street
Free and open to the Public
Tom Farley, MD, MPH, is the Chairman of the Department of Community Health at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is coauthor of Prescription for a Healthy Nation, in which he argues for changing everyday environments as the best way to prevent the leading causes of death in the 21st century.
At Tulane, he is currently the Director of a CDC-funded Prevention Research Center to study the impact of the physical and social environment on obesity. He teaches courses in public health practice and in policy-based approaches to health promotion. Since Hurricane Katrina struck, he has been working to rebuild New Orleans in ways that promote health.
The Journal of the American Medical Association hailed his "important message that should be shared with everyone" as "perhaps the best solution to this nation's health care woes."
Says Dr. Farley, "In America we spend nearly twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are we among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Something is wrong about the way we are approaching health in the United States. We don't need another health care reform plan, we need a new way to think about health."
Dr. Farley will be coming to Rochester as part of a lecture series co-sponsored by the Medical Center at the University of Rochester, the Rochester Regional Community Design Center and Sector 4 Community Development Corporation.
Dr. Farley will be signing books and presenting a broader discussion of community health issues including childhood obesity on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00 pm at St. Monica's Church located at 831 Monica Street, at the corner of Monica Street.
This event is free and open to the public.
His talk also kicks off a three-day conference, "Design Matters 4: Emergence of Forgotten Neighborhoods," on creative strategies for reclaiming vacant and abandoned properties.
For additional information on the lecture or conference, please contact RRCDC (585) 271-0520, astewart@rrcdc.org, www.rrcdc.org
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