Use your checksheet to better to analyze the built environment and draw conclusions about health. Include
details, your opinion and facts.
1. What observed features affect mental and emotional health?
In what specific ways?
Is this a diverse area? If not, are there historical events that have segregated groups?
What outcomes are known to be associated with the factors you chose to discuss?
Note: It is not possible to discuss every feature of the environment and built environment. Choose a few most
germane to the social determinants of health.
2. What features of this area influence physical health?
In what specific negative or positive ways?
What health outcomes are associated with the features you observe?
3. What impact does the area have on health behaviors?
4. Using the results of the built environment checksheet and class materials, identify one policy or strategy to
improve the built environment (and hence the health of the people in it) in the observed area.