A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Healthy neighborhoods : understanding the effects of the urban environment on people's health
This research project aims to verify how green and public open spaces in cities could affect people's health, more specifically on reducing non-communicable diseases - Particularly the cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases - based on the ODS 3 of the New Urban Agenda ‘to reduce premature deaths caused by these diseases by the year 2030’. Although the discussions about the features of the inhabited space and health are quite old, it is still very contemporary. This topic offers multiple possibilities of scientific exploration for several reasons, such as the persistence, the reappearance and the appearance of new diseases which have direct and indirect relationship with the characteristics of the city and the way that people live [1,2]. In addition, COVID-19 pandemic is showing the growing necessity in investments on open public spaces in Brazilian cities and other cities around the world, which promote safe social distance, short and different ways to move, especially walking and cycling [3,4]. Even though there is a dependency relationship between the quality of urban space and health, urban areas were developed based on an ideal model of the city without a direct correlation between their space arrangements and effects on people’s health. However, the discussion about the concept of a healthy city has begun in the1990s and many efforts have been made by Nordic countries to evaluate this relationship. Thus, different research has explored a vast repertoire of diseases that has helped to establish a cause and effect relationship which lead to more assertive formulation of urban and environmental policies in cities [5-8]. For example, it is possible to observe scientifically the effects of green spaces on diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, heat stress, mental health and respiratory diseases. There are also several studies in Latin America on macro scale factors associated with health. Many of them carefully explore the theme of inequality, because it is an extremely striking feature in ...
Healthy neighborhoods : understanding the effects of the urban environment on people's health
This research project aims to verify how green and public open spaces in cities could affect people's health, more specifically on reducing non-communicable diseases - Particularly the cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases - based on the ODS 3 of the New Urban Agenda ‘to reduce premature deaths caused by these diseases by the year 2030’. Although the discussions about the features of the inhabited space and health are quite old, it is still very contemporary. This topic offers multiple possibilities of scientific exploration for several reasons, such as the persistence, the reappearance and the appearance of new diseases which have direct and indirect relationship with the characteristics of the city and the way that people live [1,2]. In addition, COVID-19 pandemic is showing the growing necessity in investments on open public spaces in Brazilian cities and other cities around the world, which promote safe social distance, short and different ways to move, especially walking and cycling [3,4]. Even though there is a dependency relationship between the quality of urban space and health, urban areas were developed based on an ideal model of the city without a direct correlation between their space arrangements and effects on people’s health. However, the discussion about the concept of a healthy city has begun in the1990s and many efforts have been made by Nordic countries to evaluate this relationship. Thus, different research has explored a vast repertoire of diseases that has helped to establish a cause and effect relationship which lead to more assertive formulation of urban and environmental policies in cities [5-8]. For example, it is possible to observe scientifically the effects of green spaces on diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, heat stress, mental health and respiratory diseases. There are also several studies in Latin America on macro scale factors associated with health. Many of them carefully explore the theme of inequality, because it is an extremely striking feature in ...
Healthy neighborhoods : understanding the effects of the urban environment on people's health
2021-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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