Creating Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy People: Initiating a Research Agenda on the Built Environment and Public Health

Mounting evidence suggests physical and mental health problems relate to the built environment, including human-modified places such as homes, schools, workplaces, parks, industrial areas, farms, roads and highways. The public health relevance of the built environment requires examination. Prelimina...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2003-09, Vol.93 (9), p.1446-1450
Main Authors: Srinivasan, Shobha, O'Fallon, Liam R, Dearry, Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Asthma
Biological and medical sciences
Built environment
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
City Planning
Community Health Planning
Congresses as Topic
Empirical Research
Environment Design
Environment. Living conditions
Environmental conditions
Environmental health
Environmental impact
Health care
Health care policy
Housing - standards
Housing. Living conditions
Humans
Interagency collaboration
Interinstitutional Relations
Life Style
Low income groups
Lung diseases
Medical sciences
Mental health
Obesity
Outdoor air quality
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public transportation
Reviewing the Evidence
Roads & highways
Schools
Socioeconomic Factors
Sustainable development
Transportation
Transportation planning
Trucks
United States
Urban planning
USA
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Summary:Mounting evidence suggests physical and mental health problems relate to the built environment, including human-modified places such as homes, schools, workplaces, parks, industrial areas, farms, roads and highways. The public health relevance of the built environment requires examination. Preliminary research demonstrates the health benefits of sustainable communities. However, the impact of mediating and moderating factors within the built environment on health must be explored further. Given the complexity of the built environment, understanding its influence on human health requires a community-based, multilevel, interdisciplinary research approach. The authors offer recommendations, based upon a recent conference sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), for research and policy approaches, and suggest interagency research alliances for greater public health impact.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1446