AIA Design & Health Series: VITAMINS FOR THE 21st CENTURY- Valuing design as a tool for primary prevention
This report is part of a series produced by the American Institute of Architects. Individually, the reports affirm six evidence-based design approaches that positively influence human health through design practices and policies: environmental quality, natural systems, physical activity, safety, sensory environments, and social connectedness. Collectively, they represent an intellectual and practical convergence of design and health essential to designing a better world.
The series converges architecture with public health and leads designers to ask:
1. What part of public health belongs to design?
2. How do we drive design into codes and standards to intentionally achieve positive health outcomes?
3. How can design solutions address a wide range of health outcomes as a question of equity?
Author:
Jocelyn Widmer; Nirupa Goel; and Alina Baciu
Resource Date:
April, 2014
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http://aiad8.prod.acquia-sites.com/sites/default/files/2016-04/DH-Vitamins-for-the-21st-Century.pdf