Making Healthy Places

Making Healthy Places

Category:
User Experience

Net4Age Ontology Terms:
acceptance , aging , autonomy , building , citizen , housing , inclusion , people , place , technology , usability , wellbeing

Description:

This project looks at such convergences and divergences within a particularly instrumental environment - the barriers and opportunities that present to built environment practitioners when making healthy places.

Overview: 
The built environment significantly influences the health and well-being of individuals and communities, impacting access to healthy food, active transportation, and social connections. While there is a recognized need for places that promote positive health outcomes, there's often a gap between policy intentions and practical implementation. Bridging this gap between planning principles and practical execution remains a challenge. The interplay between health and urban planning professionals and governance structures in this context has a long history, reflecting the complex dynamics of achieving environments that genuinely support human health.

Objectives: 
The objective was to seek insights from key stakeholders engaged in healthy built environment policy about effective partnerships, strategies, tools and policy making. Participants were government and non-government urban planners, social planners, researchers and managers.

Initiatives: 
The initiative innovatively addresses the challenge of implementing healthy placemaking, acknowledging the gap between policy ideals and practical execution.
Shortcomings: 
The initiative is not so specific to NET4Age
Relevance: 
4
Relevance Description: 
Although the initiative is very interesting and has potential, it is relevant to WG4 and not totally to WG1.
Quality: 
5
Opinion: 
Although the initiative is very interesting and has potential, it is relevant to WG4 and not totally to WG1.
Overlap: 
No
Overlap Detail: 
Sources: 
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:59559/datastream/PDF/view
Keywords: 
built environment, health, wellbeing
Email: 
oscarzanutto@gmail.com