The Built Environment and Health: Introducing Individual Space-Time Behavior

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Dick Saarloos²  Jae-Eun Kim¹ 

[1]Institute of Island Culture, Mokpo National University, 61 Dorim-Ri, Cheonggye-Myeon, Muan-Gun, Jeonnam 534-729, Korea

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[3]Centre for the Built Environment and Health, School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, M707, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

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关键词: built environment;    overweight and obesity;    individual-based modeling;    space-time behavior;    activity patterns;    health impact assessment;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph6061724

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Many studies have examined the relationship between the built environment and health. Yet, the question of how and why the environment influences health behavior remains largely unexplored. As health promotion interventions work through the individuals in a targeted population, an explicit understanding of individual behavior is required to formulate and evaluate intervention strategies. Bringing in concepts from various fields, this paper proposes the use of an activity-based modeling approach for understanding and predicting, from the bottom up, how individuals interact with their environment and each other in space and time, and how their behaviors aggregate to population-level health outcomes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland.