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Stefano Capolongo

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Healthy design and urban planning strategies, actions, and policy to achieve salutogenic cities

2018

Starting from a previous experience carried out by the working group “Building and Environmental Hygiene” of the Italian Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (SItI), the aim of the present work is to define new strategic goals for achieving a “Healthy and Salutogenic City”, which will be useful to designers, local governments and public bodies, policy makers, and all professionals working at local health agencies. Ten key points have been formulated: 1. climate change and management of adverse weather events; 2. land consumption, sprawl, and shrinking cities; 3. tactical urbanism and urban resilience; 4. urban comfort, safety, and security perception; 5. strengths and weaknesses of ur…

Healthy urban planning strategiesTactical urbanismSense of CoherenceHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesislcsh:MedicineContext (language use)010501 environmental sciencesSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E Applicata01 natural sciencesHealthy urban planning strategie03 medical and health sciencesSettore MED/44 - MEDICINA DEL LAVORO0302 clinical medicineNon-communicable disease preventionUrban planningHumansSalutogenic citiesToxicology and Mutagenesis030212 general & internal medicineCity PlanningPolicy MakingEnvironmental planning0105 earth and related environmental sciencesPublic healthHealth Policyurban health; public health; salutogenic cities; healthy urban planning strategies; health promotion; non-communicable disease preventionlcsh:REnvironmental and Occupational HealthPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthUrban sprawlHygieneConcept PaperHealth promotionItalyHealthShrinking citiesHealth promotionBusinessHealth promotion; Healthy urban planning strategies; Non-communicable disease prevention; Public health; Salutogenic cities; Urban health; Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health; Health Toxicology and MutagenesisUrban resilienceUrban healthSalutogenic citieStrengths and weaknesses
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Synergies in Design and Health. The role of architects and urban health planners in tackling key contemporary public health challenges

2020

Background and aim: Important public health improvements have been achieved over the past decades, but new challenges are emerging and progress cannot be taken for granted. Urban settlements host most of the global population, but they are also sources of several threats. The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of architects and planners in contributing to overcome these critical health challenges and propose strategic actions for collaboration with the public health workforce. Methods: Taking global trends and public health challenges as starting point, a scoping literature review has been conducted to illustrate the possible synergies that architecture and public health workforce …

noncommunicable diseasespublic healthUrban Healthpublic health urban health workforce collaboration climate change noncommunicable diseases evidence based design urbanization multidisciplinary architects roleurbanizationarchitects roleclimate changeArchitectureworkforce collaborationHumansOriginal Articleevidence based designBuilt EnvironmentCity PlanningmultidisciplinaryActa Bio Medica : Atenei Parmensis
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