Public Health
"The health and well-being of children, not the gross national product, is the best indicator of the health of our civilization." - David Orr
"When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves." - Bobby McLeod (Koori activist, aboriginal)
"First we shape the city then they shape us." -Jan Gehl
Learning Objectives
- Associate infrastructure with health
- Propose a method to measure health and happiness based on infrastructure design
Agenda
- Review Resources
- Slides - Public Health, Infrastructure, and Happiness
- Activity - Local Infrastructure to Promote Public Health
- Complete Discussion and Assignments/Quiz
Review Resources
Public Health, Infrastructure, and Happiness
Slides Links to an external site.
Local Infrastructure to promote public health
1. Choose your hometown, Blacksburg, or VT campus.
2. What is one public health issues below that you think needs being addressed?
- Air and water quality
- Heat stroke
- Anxiety/Depression
- Access to medical and other health care
- Quality of and access to schools
- Healthy food outlets
- Ease of social interaction and resulting social capital
- Physical Inactivity
- Accidental Injury
3. Write down a specific example of related to your public health issue.
4. How would you measure if this is an issue for a larger population?
5. Provide at least one solution and why this is important to address.
6. How could you measure the effects of your solution?
7. What impact will this have on happiness?
8. How could you measure happiness?
Discussion
Read Carbon Zero -Chapter 3: Urbanism: Why good walk sheds mean lower emissions Links to an external site. and share your thoughts on the discussion page Discussion Carbon Zero ch3: Urbanism.