نوع مقاله : مقاله کوتاه
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
The growing awareness on the impact of man-made environments on human health and welfare has drawn attention to planning measures which contribute to creating a healthy environment. This paper first reviews the health and environment concepts based on medical and planning theories, respectively. Then the Sustainable Place Model is used as a conceptual basis for determining those functional, physical, cognitive and ecological features, which affect diverse health dimensions. Accordingly, a causation diagram is developed to include urban feature and health dimensions. It is shown that in addition to conventional socioeconomic dimensions, health has a spatial dimension, while planning also has a health dimension.