5) (5 marks total) Healthy community design involves a series of trad
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HBO Small Business en Ondernemerschap
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HBO Small Business En Ondernemerschap
5) (5 marks total) Healthy community design involves a series of trade-offs to maximize the
health benefits of communities while minimizing the negative health impacts. Please describe
some of these trade-offs or "tensions," in which one (or more) principle(s) of healthy
community design may act...
5) (5 marks total) Healthy community design involves a series of trade-offs to maximize the
health benefits of communities while minimizing the negative health impacts. Please describe
some of these trade-offs or \"tensions,\" in which one (or more) principle(s) of healthy
community design may act in opposition to (an)other principle(s)
Solution
Healthy community design can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design
is planning and designing communities that make it easier for people to lie healthy lives. It offers
important benefits decreases dependence on the automobile by building homes, business, schools
church etc. close to each other so that people do not have to use vehicles as they can walk or
bike.
It provides opportunity for people to be physically active, interact more often and socially
engaged as part of their daily routine, which improves physical and mental growth. It improves
air quality due to absence of vehicles and hence maintains good climate by reducing vehicular
pollution. It can have community centers where people can gather and mingle as part of their
daily activities. It offers access to green space and parks.
But this healthy community design may act in opposition to the other principles as - the parks
and recreational facilities that are in poor condition. Some parks are also seen as unsafe, viewed
as places where drugs are death and crimes are committed. Parks and other recreational facilities
may be difficult to reach using certain types of transportation. Even if a facility is near one\'s
residence, if street crossing near the facility are hazardous or if these are few sidewalks along the
street leding to the facility, a person may not be able to safely reach the facility on foot or by
bicycle. For vulnerable groups such as children , the elderly and low income group people, this
consideration may have greater relevance simply because members of these groups have a more
difficult time getting to the facility.
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