Plants Increase Hospital Room Attractiveness
A hospital room with the plants is considered more attractive and more calming.
A hospital room with the plants is considered more attractive and more calming.
Pedestrians and cyclists over the age of 70 prefer different features in the routes they are traveling along than walkers and cyclists who are 40-49 years old.
Floyd and his colleagues assessed activity levels in 28 different parks in Tampa and Chicago.
Mead and his colleagues assessed factors that encourage stair use.
A review of the evidence-based design research finds hospitals have benefited.
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has a methodology to assess medical facilities.
The Center for Health Design has initiated a continuing discussion of noise in hospitals.
A study of pre-Baby Boomers/ early Baby Boomers (ages 50-75) living in Portland Oregon indicates that certain neighborhood features are related to increased obesity among residents.
The National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions recently released a report, Evidence for Innovation, Transforming Children’s Health through the Physical Environment, that reports, in detail, on the relationship between the physical environment and care outcomes for pediatric patients.
People who live in older neighborhoods (built before 1950) tend to be healthier than people who live in newer neighborhoods.