The University of Florida Center for Arts and Medicine / ArtPlace America, 2019
Resource Overview
This field scan focuses on the intersection of creative placemaking and public health. It outlines the direct and indirect benefits that arts and culture can have on public health, which can be helpful for convincing municipal leaders to take on a similar project.
Key Sections
Aligning Assets
Page 6 outlines eight outcomes that creative placemaking can have on the public health sector.
Page 7 summarizes seven recommendations for cross-sector collaboration between arts and culture and public health. Pages 42-43 expand on these recommendations.
Pages 16-40 provide creative placemaking case studies and outcomes sorted into five urgent public health issues: collective trauma, racism, social exclusion and isolation, mental health, and chronic disease.