Prevention of Health Concerns Within the Built Environment

Abstract

The core of this investigation aimed to integrate protocols within the built environment that prevent health concerns that are prevalent points of discussion in modern society. Impacts of air quality in relation to building occupants, importance of incorporating active transportation and passive exercise into daily lifestyle choices, impacts of green space on the environment and physical health, and benefits associated with increased access to dietary standards are the four core questions of this investigation. It is important to note that this investigation does not only focus on physical health concerns associated with human beings. Various points within the four protocols aimed to improve the built environment and approach the building industry through a sustainable lens. Understanding that air quality can be improved, active transportation combats the impacts of obesity and related diseases, green space offsets the damage to physical health created by urban heat islands and increasing access to dietary standards are achievable in new or existing developments captures the results of the research conducted. Harnessing a new and improved approach to the way human beings interact with the infrastructure in which they live is critical.