Public Health: Seattle and King County's Push for the Built
FEATURES REFERENCES FIGURE TABLE SPECIAL REPORT Public Health: Seattle and King County’s Push for the Built Environment Karen Roof, M.S. Ngozi Oleru, Ph.D. Introduction The Built Environment Historically, environmental health and In Seattle and King County, Washington, and Broadly defined, the built environment is planning professionals had closer ties. In nationwide, evidence shows that decisions the human-made space in which people the early 1900s, some land use planners about how we use land and build our environ live, work, and recreate on a day-to-day championed health as a key issue for the ment have significant impacts on individual basis. It includes the buildings and spaces planning profession. This social planning and population health, safety, and well-being. we create or modify. It can extend overhead movement was expressly interested in ten Land use and built environments also impact in the form of electric transmission lines ement housing issues, public health, and community networks, economic growth, en and underground in the form of landfills industrial abuse conditions. The planners vironmental sustainability, and social justice. (Department of Health and Human Ser were also concerned about how planning In the past century, awareness of the negative vices [HHS], 2004). The design of our decisions could not only control but pre health effects and disparities due to impacts built environment affects the possibility of vent diseases such as tuberculosis (Wir from the built environment has grown, but a injury related to pedestrian and vehicular ka, 1996). Similarly, prominent planners lack of knowledge, recognition, and viable data accidents, and it also influences the pos as late as the 1930s reiterated that good remains about the connection between the sibility of exercise and healthy lifestyles.
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