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The Proximity of Urban Green Spaces as Urban Health Strategy to Promote Active, Inclusive and Salutogenic Cities
No full textUrban Green Spaces (UGS) have several positive effects on Public Health, environmental quality, and cities’ resilience to climate change; UGS are crucial in urban regeneration actions and urban health purposes. Moreover, to better define the UGS’ health impacts, it is important to define and guarantee UGS’ proximity, accessibility, and quality. Aim of the research is a quali-quantitative assessment of the UGS in Italian metropolitan cities, taking Milan, Turin, Florence, and Bologna as preliminary case studies. One of the 1st phases was to draw up dynamic and descriptive GIS-based maps of the relationships between density of population and of urban fabric, UGS’ availability, and their accessibility. Only the areas with a size greater than 15,000 square meters were considered; three buffer zones of proximity were defined: 250, 500, and 750 m. By combining the UGS’ availability with the population’s density, it was possible to quantify the citizens included in the three buffer zones. From the 1st analysis, it is observed that about 90% of the population is served by a quality green area within a buffer area of 750 m; 78% by the buffer zone of 500 m; 49% by the buffer zone of 250 m. Both the elaborated maps and graphs obtained show how population is not equally served by close and accessible UGS. Their geo-localization it’s a preliminary quantitative step (process started in Italy with the introduction of regulations like green areas’ census, mapping, maintenance legislation, and strategic plans), but it’s even more crucial to evaluate the UGS’ quality in terms of accessibility, safety and security features, provision of services and paths
Healthcare sustainability challenge
No full textHealthcare structures are supposed to protect and improve Public Health, but in the meanwhile they are highly energy-demanding and socially impactful structures, which cause negative side effects on the people’s health and on the environment. Building hospitals able to cope with the definition of Health as complete well-being and which can fit to the future means therefore constructing sustainable structures. Such complex realities work as a whole, single organism, that can be robust and productive only if every single part is healthy. So when it comes to healthcare facilities, sustainability has to be taken into account as both a main requirement and a quality issue, since they must be capable to deliver high standards also in changing circumstances. Starting from these assumptions the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare project is born with the aim of providing a new original insight into such a complex subject. Its goal is to define, through the construction of an innovative assessment system, solutions and strategies towards the realization of sustainable existing operative or in-design hospitals, where sustainability applies to the main macro-area
Bioarchitettura, salute, comfort: igiene, benessere e consapevolezza ecologica dell’abitare
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Trial evaluation of the natural air change rate in various different indoor environments.
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Impatto sanitario del disagio abitativo: stato delle conoscenze, problematiche metodologiche e nuovi modelli valutativi
No full textAttraverso l'analisi della letteratura, in particolare sui dati di attività di Servizi di Igiene e Sanità Pubblica delle ASL, gli autori esaminano l’adeguatezza delle attuali metodiche di valutazione della qualità degli spazi residenziali. La semplice analisi ex legibus delle abitazioni appare ormai inadeguata, perché non considera alcuni fattori cruciali come la presenza di radon e l’accessibilità. Inoltre, le attuali metodiche di valutazione sono state applicate solo a livello locale, e l’impatto sanitario del disagio abitativo in Italia non è mai stato stimato. Vista la forte esigenza di un metodo di valutazione dell’ambiente confinato più sensibile, da validare su campioni vasti e rappresentativi, gli autori presentano due modelli alternativi, che possono garantire una valutazione multifattoriale, olistica, della qualità dell’ambiente confinato, includendo anche componenti psico-sociali.A literature search was performed to evaluate the current state of knowledge regarding housing quality in Italy and the adequacy of methods used to assess it. The simple adoption of current criteria required by national and local legislation for the evaluation of dwellings seems to be inadequate, because some crucial parameters, including radon testing and evaluation of accessibility are not considered. Also, current assessment methods have been used exclusively at the local level, and the health impact of housing quality in Italy has never been estimated. There is a strong need for more sensitive methods of evaluation of indoor environments, to be validated on large and representative samples. The authors discuss two possible alternative models which may ensure a multifactorial, holistic assessment of the quality of housing spaces, also by including an evaluation of psycho-social component
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