Designing for Better Nutrition (09-14-12)
Trying to design to make healthy eating more likely?
Trying to design to make healthy eating more likely?
Research in care homes indicates that how furniture is arranged can significantly influence resident activity.
The Center for Health Design has released a literature review prepared by Anjali Joseph and Xiaobo Quan that can be used to assess risks to patients in long-term living facilities.
A pilot project evaluates the impact of a multifaceted ‘optimal healing environment’ intervention.
Research to identify factors that encourage people to walk more frequently (instead of, for example, driving) in some environments than others has been regularly published during the last few years.
Research continues to build indicating that light has a significant influence on well-being.
Hekler and his colleagues investigated “if key within-person factors (i.e., implementation intentions, social support, affect and self-efficacy) would be associated with walking and if perceived access to supportive environments (e.g., access to nice walking paths) and perceived environmental barriers (e.g., bad weather and safety issues) were uniquely associated with walking.”
The Daylighting Collaborative presents daylighting design guidelines at the web address noted below.
A number of recent studies have highlighted the negative health implications of experiencing unwanted sound (also known as noise).
Healthcare Design has prepared an introduction to effective bariatric design in healthcare environments, which is available without charge at the web address below.