Focus: Facility Design

Healthcare facility design can help build healthy communities

Healthy behavior may be influenced at the population level by changing the environment


Healthy behavior may be influenced at the population level by changing the environment, according to an article on the Healthcare Facility Management website.

For instance, healthcare providers have begun to use things like prescriptions for bike share passes to encourage people to exercise more.

Altering behavior patterns to reduce non-communicable diseases linked to poor diet, lack of physical activity, alcohol consumption and smoking is one of the most important health challenges of the 21st century, the article said.

The term “choice architecture” refers to interventions made across behavioral and environmental contexts to encourage healthy behavior. 

Read the article.

 

 



November 2, 2016


Topic Area: Architecture


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