Using Green Building As A Model For Making Health Promotion Standard In The Built Environment.
The built environment-the constructed physical parts of the places where people live and work-is a powerful determinant of both individual and population health. Awareness of the link between place and health is growing within the public health sector and among built environment decision makers working in design, construction, policy, and both public and private finance. However, these decision makers lack the knowledge, tools, and capacity to ensure that health and well-being are routinely considered across all sectors of the built environment. The green building industry has successfully established environmental sustainability as a normative part of built environment practice, policy making, and investment. We explore the value of this industry's experience as a template for promoting health and well-being in the built environment.
Matthew J. Trowbridge (mtrowbridge@virginia.edu) is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, in Charlottesville.
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Kelly Worden is manager of health content in the research program at the US Green Building Council, in Washington, D.C.
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Christopher Pyke is chief operating officer at the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), in Washington, D.C.
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D003469:Culture; D004779:Environment Design; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D000075485:Population Health; D011634:Public Health
Business Of Health; Determinants Of Health; Environmental Health; Health Promotion/Disease Prevention; Public Health