scholarly journals Enhancing the Health and Well-Being of People with Chronic Diseases: Assessment and Sustainable Development Planning for Therapeutic Landscapes after Urban Expansion

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Lin Mei ◽  
Kun Liu ◽  
Bo-Wei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Therapeutic Landscapes ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
East Lake ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
The East Lake

Under the influence of economic, environmental, and social structural changes, urban space expands and contracts to varying degrees and the everyday urban landscape changes in response. Over the past 20 years, a large number of cities in China have undergone a brief but rapid urban expansion and are moving toward shrinking cities. Most of these cities are now facing social problems such as an aging population and a high prevalence of chronic diseases. Therefore, the “therapeutic” role and impact of everyday landscapes in these cities need to be examined in the context of urban development processes through appropriate assessment methods. Therefore, this study applies the ANP-mV model to examine the therapeutic nature of everyday urban landscapes in different development periods, with the aim of enhancing the health and well-being of people with chronic diseases. Firstly, this study uses the city of Jinzhou in Northeast China as an example to develop a framework for assessing the therapeutic nature of everyday urban landscapes based on the health care needs of people with chronic diseases; secondly, it examines the therapeutic nature of the former Jinzhou Suburban Riverfront Forest Park as it has developed and evolved over the past 16 years; finally, it explores place-making and regeneration strategies for therapeutic landscapes from the perspectives of dynamic impact and sustainable development to enhance chronic illness patients’ well-being. At the theoretical level, this study contributes by providing a methodology and research ideas for examining the “therapeutic” nature of everyday urban landscapes and proposing further development plans for renewal, constructing a framework for assessing therapeutic landscapes, and elucidating the relationship between networks of influence and the relative importance of various assessment dimensions/elements. At the practical application level, the contribution of this study is to provide local policymakers with a key decision basis for the future development planning of the East Lake Forest Park. The aim is to explore landscape creation and regeneration strategies for the East Lake Forest Park in the context of Jinzhou's progressive move toward a shrinking city, in order to sustain the well-being of the chronically ill.

scholarly journals Showcasing Relationships between Neighborhood Design and Wellbeing Toronto Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shaker ◽  
Joseph Aversa ◽  
Victoria Papp ◽  
Bryant Serre ◽  
Brian Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Landscape Configuration ◽  
Public Data

Cities are the keystone landscape features for achieving sustainability locally, regionally, and globally. With the increasing impacts of urban expansion eminent, policymakers have encouraged researchers to advance or invent methods for managing coupled human–environmental systems associated with local and regional sustainable development planning. Although progress has been made, there remains no universal instrument for attaining sustainability on neither regional nor local planning scales. Previous sustainable urbanization studies have revealed that landscape configuration metrics can supplement other measures of urban well-being, yet few have been included in public data dashboards or contrasted against local well-being indicators. To advance this sector of sustainable development planning, this study had three main intentions: (1) to produce a foundational suite of landscape ecology metrics from the 2007 land cover dataset for the City of Toronto; (2) to visualize and interpret spatial patterns of neighborhood streetscape patch cohesion index (COHESION), Shannon’s diversity index (SHDI), and four Wellbeing Toronto indicators across the 140 Toronto neighborhoods; (3) to quantitatively assess the global collinearity and local explanatory power of the well-being and landscape measures showcased in this study. One-hundred-and-thirty landscape ecology metrics were computed: 18 class configuration metrics across seven land cover categories and four landscape diversity metrics. Anselin Moran’s I-test was used to illustrate significant spatial patterns of well-being and landscape indicators; Pearson’s correlation and conditional autoregressive (CAR) statistics were used to evaluate relationships between them. Spatial “hot-spots” and/or “cold-spots” were found in all streetscape variables. Among other interesting results, Walk Score® was negatively related to both tree canopy and grass/shrub connectedness, signifying its lack of consideration for the quality of ecosystem services and environmental public health—and subsequently happiness—during its proximity assessment of socioeconomic amenities. In sum, landscape ecology metrics can provide cost-effective ecological integrity addendum to existing and future urban resilience, sustainable development, and well-being monitoring programs.

scholarly journals A Critical Examination of Senior Housing: Promoting Equity Through Ensuring Safe Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 398-398
Author(s):  
Zach Kilgore ◽  
Michael Appel ◽  
Michele Waktins ◽  
Claudia Sanford ◽  
Dennis Archambault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract As affordable senior housing communities aimed to address the health and well-being concerns of residents in the COVID-19 pandemic, special attention to safety during renovation had to be addressed. This paper offers case studies from members of a city-wide advocacy group, Senior Housing Preservation-Detroit. Eighty one percent of covid deaths in the City of Detroit are those 60 and above; 81.2% of deaths have been among African Americans (Detroit Health Department, 2021). With the grief and challenge in a city hit early on in the 2020 pandemic, these case studies will highlight how Covid-19 affected planned projects in senior buildings, how stakeholders such as developers, staff and residents responded and key considerations for future emergencies affecting senior housing communities. This paper offers critical perspectives applicable to many urban landscapes in order to raise awareness to policy makers, and practitioners.

scholarly journals Therapeutic Landscapes: A Natural Weaving of Culture, Health and Land

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marques ◽  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
Hayley Webber
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Therapeutic Landscapes ◽  
Therapeutic Landscape ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
Health And Well Being

Current concepts of therapeutic landscape combine landscape with principles of holistic health and the interaction of social, affective and material factors. As social tensions widen the gap between the places of emotional retreat and healing from those of everyday sociability, concepts of therapeutic landscape are evolving to reflect society’s current values. This chapter examines how cultural place-based values affect and maintain physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and well-being in the context of a therapeutic landscape. Five case studies from Australasia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America are analysed to understand better the interrelationships between land, culture and health that make an environment therapeutic. The case studies were selected based on their engagement with the cultural traditions of landscape architecture and how the boundaries of these cultural traditions are negotiated within a modern context. The chapter contributes to the knowledge base of landscape architects and academics interested in the role of culture in producing and maintaining therapeutic landscapes by presenting a cross-cultural analysis to illustrate a range of strategies for incorporating cultural traditions and customs into modern landscape architectural contexts to promote health and well-being.

scholarly journals From End Treatment to Source Prevention: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Promote Research on the Environment and Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases with Special Reference to China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1900
Author(s):  
Xi-Zhang Shan ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Kun Lai
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Integrative Research ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Effective Source

Globally, the pandemic of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) has become a critical public health problem. Although NCD prevention has been shifting from individual behavioral interventions to broad environmental interventions, it is still necessary to promote research on the environment and NCDs as a whole. Therefore, this conceptual paper aimed to develop a general and novel framework to advance this line of research. The framework uses socio-ecological approaches that emphasize source prevention rather than the end treatment. Specifically, this framework comprehensively covered integrative research approaches, prioritized areas, urgent efforts, innovative methodologies, and improved funding. The framework used China as a typical context, where its public health policies, similar to other nations, still focus on the end treatment of NCDs, placing emphasis on biomedical approaches and technologies. China’s relevant efforts may furnish new insights and approaches concerning NCD prevention, and these efforts may benefit the improvement of global health and well-being. Such social-ecological research efforts can help to accelerate a shift from existing individual interventions to environmental interventions, thereby ultimately achieving the effective source prevention of NCDs in China and around the globe.

scholarly journals Stigmatized places as therapeutic landscapes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer T. Mokos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Urban Rivers ◽  
Therapeutic Landscapes ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
River Bottom

Urban rivers in the United States have frequently been sites of long-term homeless encampments. Recent efforts to ‘restore’ these marginal waterways have focused on removing such camps, an approach that is justified in terms of concern for the health of both waterways and people. This article explores the intersection of landscape health and human health, based on twelve months of ethnographic research on the ecological restoration of the Ventura River in southern California. I argue that river-bottom camps contribute to the health and well-being of residents by helping them resist social exclusion and mitigate experiences of violence and stigma. It is important to recognize this complexity so that logics of exclusion are not unintentionally reproduced in how landscapes are understood, which can legitimate actions, such as camp removals, that cause marginalized communities additional harm. Embracing the complexity of therapeutic landscapes opens up possibilities for more just ways of restoring the health of human and nonhuman natures.

Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Doull ◽  
Annette M. O'Connor ◽  
Vivian Welch ◽  
Peter Tugwell ◽  
George A Wells
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Health And Well Being

scholarly journals VARIAÇÃO DO ÍNDICE NDVI E DA TEMPERATURA DA SUPERFÍCIE TERRESTRE NA MALHA URBANA DO MUNICÍPIO DE PARACATU –MG ENTRE 1985 E 2005

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Arthur Pereira dos Santos ◽  
Henzo Henrique Simionatto ◽  
Elson Mendonca Felici
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Ndvi Index ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
Urban And Environmental Planning ◽  
Health And Well Being

This research aimed to evaluate, multitemporally, through the index of vegetation by normalized difference (NDVI) and the surface temperature (LST), the expansion of the urban fabric of the municipality of Paracatu (MG), which came to present, during the analyzed period , between 1985 and 2005, urbanization rate above Brazil. A multitemporal layout was prepared containing the results obtained and statistical analyzes were performed to verify if there was a significant difference between the years. There wasa variation of more than 2 ºC in the averages and maximum of your LST. Regarding the variation of the NDVI index, a reduction in vegetation was observed as the urban network expanded. It was possible to conclude that the urban expansion of the municipality of Paracatu, linked to the lack of urban and environmental planning, may be directly related to the variations in LST and the NDVI index, a fact that directly influences the health and well-being of residents.

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