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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
Ross Brownson
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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, Alexander Bigazzi, Andy Hong, Leia Minaker, Pat Fisher, Kim D. Raine   +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., Scuffham, Paul A., Spinks, Anneliese, Scott, Rani, Sipe, Neil, Ng, ShuKay, Wilson, Andrew, Searle, Judy, Lyons, Ronan A., Kendall, Elizabeth, Halford, Kim, Griffiths, Lyn R., Homel, Ross, McClure, Roderick J.   +13 more
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An Integrated Approach for Healthy Living Environments: Learning Healthy Cities

2023
Pandemics, epidemics, climate crisis and disasters, which have shown their devastating effects in recent years in the physical environments that every individual is in constant contact with, have made the health of the physical environment and healthy living in this environment a focal point. The most populous population in socio-physical environments,
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Healthy living environments for older adults with dementia

2006
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Kort, Helianthe, Hoof, Joost van
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Fundamentals of mold growth in indoor environments and strategies for healthy living

2011
Today, indoor mold and moisture, and their associated health effects, are a society-wide problem. The economic consequences of indoor mold and moisture are enormous. Their global dimension has been emphasized in several recent international publications, stressing that the most important means for avoiding adverse health effects is the prevention (or ...
Adan, O.A., Samson, R.A.
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