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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Healthy environments"”.
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Connections First: Community perceptions of social connections
… natural supports aim to create supportive and healthy environments with an emphasis on locality. This study investigated how urban communities are working to promote natural supports to address vulnerability. Methods: Using classical grounded theory, community champions were interviewed …
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Design that Heals
… stripped, unwelcoming, and unnatural healthcare environments that have proven to negatively impact the health and well-being of facilities' patients. Dialysis treatment facilities, whose medical procedures rely so heavily on machines, are an even more extreme condition of this imbalance. In an …
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The City and its interfaces: An Approach to Recover the Natural and Cultural Landscape at the Beachfront in St. Augustine Beach, Florida
… about social and environmental aspects in urban environments, many questions about how to support natural and cultural landscapes, or why to keep them are not answered in the existing waterfronts and re-developments at the water's edge. For this reason, the recovering of urban waterfronts is an …
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Designing for Health in the Suburbs
… Changes can be made to take existing unhealthy environments to transform them into healthy, inclusive places that different types of people can genuinely enjoy living in. The differences in what we know now vs. what was known back when most subrubs were originally planned are drastic. …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
… economically equitable, humane built environments. Articulated by the British social reformer Sir Ebenezer Howard and his 1898 book To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, the model represented a method for uniting the benefits of town and country through a singular, pre-planned, …
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Ultrasonic Microscopy Analysis of Corrosion -- A Nondestructive Evaluation of Paint Weathering Effects <i>and</i> Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Water-reducible Polymer Particles
… has been growing fast because of the concern of healthy environments. In our studies, nanoscale water reducible acrylic copolymers (PMMA-MAA) with zero volatile organic compound (VOC) were synthesized and characterized. Five controllable variables which were molecular weight, acid number, %solids …
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Beyond Rural to Urban: Examining Urbanization and Quality of Life in Hawassa, Ethiopia
… housing, (3) general health & well-being, (4) healthy environments, (5) access to affordable transportation, and (6) community involvement & sense of belonging. Hawassa is one of many secondary cities in Ethiopia and across Sub-Saharan Africa that are growing at a pace faster than the city can …
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Active Urbanism: Improving population health based on physiological and socio-psychological experiments
… and how it can be applied to the design of urban environments. Methodologically, the thesis also reveals that a multidisciplinary approach is important when it comes to the practice of designing and implementing healthy environments – a topic that has gained growing attention in recent decades.
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The impacts and management of outdoor-sourced PM2.5 in New Delhi's buildings : a simulation approach
… modeling and to consider the effects of urban environments on the driving mass transfer and heat exchange processes by using a mix of methods including a computational fluid dynamics approach to arrive at wind pressure coefficients. The adapted program and simulation framework is used to …
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The planning and design of mental health treatment centres
… patient health and comfort by providing suitable environments to facilitate care and treatment. This thesis examines and provides guidance on security issues, environmental design, the cognitive environment, and site development. Sample facility plans are also provided to demonstrate the design …
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A New Approach to Texas Groundwater Management: An Environmental Justice Argument to Challenge the Rule of Capture
… low-income and minority communities to clean and healthy environments, focusing on several acts and policies enacted by the federal government as a direct result of this movement. I then demonstrate how the rule of capture is in conflict with these acts and policies along with being in violation …
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Haumanu taiao ihumanea: collaborative study with Te Tai O Marokura Kaitiaki Group : Tuakana Miriama Kahu, Teina Benita Wakefield
… social services as a vehicle to improve potency: healthy environments, healthy people. The specificity of Ngati Kuri experiences provided a broader context for researching and theorizing about restorative models that utilized traditional knowledge localized to a particular area. Another key …
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Designer as Ethnographer: A Study of Domestic Cooking and Heating Product Design for Irish Older Adults
… care (McGee et al., 2005). Therefore developing healthy environments in which they grow old must be a priority. Particular attention must be given to the design of domestic products that provide older people with basic daily requirements. Domestic cooking and heating products offer basic health …
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Centro integral vida a tu vida
Es un proyecto para personas mayores de 60 años pertenecientes a estratos 4, 5 y 6 que deseen vivir en comunidad, al aire libre y tranquilos. Se pretende crear un espacio de 52 viviendas ofertando servicios integrales, recreativos, programas de bienestar, áreas de esparcimiento, templo, salón de …