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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
Jean L Wiecha
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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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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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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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