This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace
environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to
improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the
link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the
role of office spatial design in encouraging physical activity to
promote physical activity, health and prevent disease. The featured
research study tracks workers’ movement in a variety of office
layouts, addressing possible ways movement-friendly design can
co-exist with wireless communication, paperless offices, and new
corporate concepts of productivity. From these findings, the
author’s conclusions extend public health concepts to recognize that
influencing population-wide levels of activity through office
architectural design alone may be possible. This SpringerBrief is
comprised of chapters on : Physical activity and
disease: Theory and practice Space-use and the history
of the office building Identifying factors of the office
architectural design that influence movement,
Interdisciplinary research methods in studying worker physical
activity, decision-making and office design characteristics
The KINESIS model for simulating physical activity in office
environments The questions and potential for solutions in Workplace
Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health will interest
and inform researchers in interdisciplinary topics of public health
and architecture as well as graduate and post-graduate students,
architects, economists, managers, businesses as well as
health-conscious readers.
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Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783319534442
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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