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Inform Photo by Ron Blunt Awards architecture • landscape architecture • product design • decorative arts • historic preservation • interior design • visual arts • graphic design • urban design esign uiaiiaioguc e How Design Impacts Health Architecture can go beyond being healthy to actually being healing. Environment By A. Ray Pentecost III DrPH, FAIA, FACHA, LEED-AP Does the environment really influence our health? Certainly. It can contribute to our getting sick, and it can contribute to our better health. Understanding how design impacts health should be an important dimension of how we shape our communities and facilities. It has been a central element in our public health studies for many years. How does public health begin to explain the Agent Host role of the environment in personal health? The Agent-Host-Environment triangle is a fundamental " Environments contribute to public health tool that is used to describe the contagious the risk of disease when they or infectious disease model. An infectious AGENT transits an ENVIRONMENT to reach a HOST and make that host allow agents to reach potential ill. One goal in public health is to do something to interrupt hosts, so it is easy to see the that interplay between the three variables, such as establishing transmission barriers in the environment that importance of the environment keep agents from reaching hosts.