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Precision medicine and healthy living: The importance of the built environment

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 2019
The built environment encompasses the major physical spaces, including buildings, streets, homes, schools, parks, playgrounds and other infrastructure in which we live, work and play. In an ideal world, the built environment should support and facilitate a healthy engagement in physical activity across the lifespan.
Nuala Byrne   +2 more
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Healthy-daylighting design for the living environment in apartments in Korea

Building and Environment, 2010
An essential part of an indoor environment design is to deliver both the visual task needed as well as a healthy lighting system. In this article, healthy residential environment is discussed as an architectural field of light. The development and consolidation of health promotion is presented focusing the discussion on two areas of action: providing ...
Gon Kim, Jeong Tai Kim
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Development of the Community Healthy Living Index: A tool to foster healthy environments for the prevention of obesity and chronic disease

Preventive Medicine, 2010
This paper presents a new, comprehensive tool for communities to assess opportunities for active living and healthy eating and to mobilize all sectors of society to conquer obesity and chronic disease.Relevant existing tools and input from an expert panel were considered to draft the Community Healthy Living Index (CHLI). CHLI covers five major sectors

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Relationship between home environment and healthy living

Housing and Society, 2021
This study sought to identify issues rural, low-income mothers face within their housing conditions and implications for their health and well-being.
Peek, Gina, Greder, Kimberly, Berry, Ann
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Built environment influences on healthy eating and active living: The NEWPATH study

Obesity, 2022
AbstractObjectiveThe Neighbourhood Environments in Waterloo: Patterns of Active Transportation and Health (NEWPATH) study examined built environment influences on travel, physical activity, food consumption, and health. This collaboration between researchers and practitioners in health and transportation planning is the first, to our knowledge, to ...
Lawrence D. Frank   +5 more
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Science for Healthy and Sustainable Living Environments

2018
This service learning project focuses on organizing learning activities for school students in which schools and teachers can ensure that education for sustainable development is integrated into the other learning activity (OLE) in the school curriculum. The objectives can be achieved by (i) exposing school students to situations of poor families, they
Kwok Wai Mui, Ling Tim Wong
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Living well and healthy ageing in the care home environment

Nursing and Residential Care, 2023
Sarah Palmer looks at how care homes can meet older people's needs to help them to live well.
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The Implicit Constitutional Right to Live in a Healthy Environment

Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 2011
The right to a healthy environment has rapidly gained constitutional protection around the world. In at least twenty countries, recognition of the right to a healthy environment first occurred through court decisions determining that it is implicit in other constitutional provisions, primarily the right to life.
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Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL) Griffith Birth Cohort Study: Background and Methods

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2012
The health of an individual is determined by the interaction of genetic and individual factors with wider social and environmental elements. Public health approaches to improving the health of disadvantaged populations will be most effective if they optimise influences at each of these levels, particularly in the early part of the life course. In order
Cameron, Cate M.   +13 more
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