HEALTHY SPACES AND PLACES 1

Healthy Places and Spaces.

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Abstract.

Healthy Places and Spaces is a national guide for creating, planning, and designing

sustainable communities that work towards healthy living. This report aims to narrow the gap

caused by the health and financial costs of preventable diseases that might be caused by bad

roads and high congestion. It tends to explain how medical distribution sources and provision of

health services that are affordable to the public. As well, it aims at describing and exposing the

vulnerable diseases targeting the older people in Uganda who suffer from these diseases. The

united states have tried several attempts in eliminating the disparities in healthcare. Examples of

which are access to healthcare, mortality, morbidity, significant variations that spread in a

vulnerable population, especially the aging. The vulnerable population may include the ethnic

minorities, low-income children, economically disadvantaged, those with HIV and the homeless.

The main focus is the people living in rural areas that experience hardship in accessing the

healthcare centers.

The vulnerability of these individuals is either caused age, race, ethnicity, insurance

cover, level of income, and sex. More importantly, it is the lack of access to care sources. The

health domain of the vulnerable population has been categorized into three, namely, the social.

Physical and psychological fields. Those with chronic mental conditions such as bipolar disorder,

schizophrenia hyperactivity disorder together with those with significant disorders. The

prevalence of chronic diseases prevailed among the disadvantaged and low-income populations.

In this report, we shall discuss the summary of the information of how the structures of the

upcoming Ugandan urban health centers should be centered, where and when precisely. Not

forgetting the safety measures and good relationship with the community around (Arena et al.

2017). In this case study, the urban development plan aims at elevating development to create the
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surrounding that that provides for opportunities for physical and other health-related operations.

Also, to increase the health outcomes for the Ugandan people through a better built and

technologically advanced environment. And contribute to national policy setting. The health

experts, community, the industry of property development, the government, and the planning and

design professionals come together and plan on how to create an urban center that is

environmentally friendly.

As seen in Uganda, the current Kampala city foresight, the road network, and location of

industries, markets centers, the referral hospital spaces and their numbers across the Ugandan

cities are not well coordinated for harmonious coexistence. The government recently created a

link across its urban centers to check on the completion rates and to ensure that safety

precautions are taken in to account (Bell et al. 2018). The main target of this plan is to help

people to access the healthcare facilities. Especially the youth, women in labor, movement of

patients from one hospital to another for better health provision, yet they rely heavily on motor

cars and bikes.

Keywords

 Built environment – according to this research, it is defined as the mansions and areas in

which we dwell, play, and work, together with how we utilize our land, design features,

and transportation systems.

 Planners – are experts who are specialized in demarcating the societies in which we live,

work, and play. They balance the built and natural environments, community needs,

cultural significance, and economic sustainability. Planners aim to improve the quality of

life and create a vibrant community.

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 Active living – this is the well-living that integrates physical activities into daily setups.

 Health – is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being with the absence

of diseases in the body.

 Density – refers to the number of people who dwell in a particular place, or it is the

population of people who live in a given area.

 Healthy communities – this is where people from the community gather to better their

community for every individual through community ownership, collaboration, long term

and inclusive approaches and positivity in commitment.

 Transport system – is the physical setup and layout of bike paths, footpaths, roads, and

railway lines that provide the connection between the physical places. Its quality comes

by the convenient travel time, safety, and comfort.

Introduction

Studies have shown that Ugandan, hospitals have recorded overweight and obesity

patients almost to 40% of the total adults admitted for treatment. They have also incurred high

mother and fetal deaths caused as a result of women giving birth in their homes. This might have

been caused by high maternity cost and lack of civic education on the dangers of giving birth at

home. As well, lack of lights on the roads to facilitate the movement to the healthcare facilities.

As a result, almost 27,000 children died during delivery in every year, and half the number of

mothers also lost their lives. To the adults, overweight problem eroded 21,000 men and women

in 2015 that lead to establishing a sensitization over the obesity and diabetes disease that turned

into a killer disease for the Ugandan population (Blue, Shove, Carmona, & Kelly, 2016). As a

result, the ministry for planning and development came up with a move to build hospitals that

conform to the new urban developments and the safety of the environment. The financial cost of
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the preventable diseases had not been debated upon taking into account the rural and above-

average families. These families could not afford to raise enough cash for maternal

hospitalization and diabetes treatment.

Main body

To enable the vulnerability factors, Stevens and his counterpart conducted research dated

on 32,374 aged. They sick adults randomly sampled in 2000 health center for a survey to identify

the risk factors causing the vulnerability to diseases. In their report, they stated the reasons for

high-risk prevalence. Examples were lack of insurance, lack of sufficient income among adults

which caused a delay to receive the required dental, medical and mental healthcare from taking

the proper prescriptions on medications (Hibbard et al. 2016).

On the contrary, hospitals located around private motorized traffic can limit a person's

wish to be physically active. Benefits have been counted with communities and private planners

who make planning activities for everyday living. They have up-to 50% reduced stress and

mental fatigue and a result of open space and distance restoration.

As mentioned earlier, the main identifying factor for the vulnerable population is the

presence of several chronic diseases, mostly to the disadvantaged groups like the aging. The

common conditions that affect them include high blood pressure, diabetes, physical pain,

depression, respiratory diseases, and obesity. There are so many diseases that fall in that category

that are not mentioned that hit so hard the aged population in rural areas (Duarte et al. 2016). The

government needed to advance the inpatient care by training their health professionals on how to

handle patients’ critical health conditions, the storage and safety patient’s data processing,

immediate attendance to the patients and provision of medical tools and facilities needed.
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To state, healthy living is a necessity for everyone, and so it critical that members of the

urban are taught the basics, and they should embrace the pattern. Community well-being and

their inclusive involvement should subside in lively places and spaces. These initiatives display

active participation and generate facts on how the built environment can improve healthy living.

Somehow, it can be said that we are responsible for our behavior changes. The situations are set

to benefit the community and then narrow down an individual level for the general healthy living

(Thompson, & McCue, 2016). When we embrace the art of healthy space and place design, we

are likely to become; supportive of the priority of facilitating peoples movement. Moreover, it

encourages the less use of motor cars and train and less sedentary, especially for local trips. The

rich and the poor in the society will be better informed about the considerations planners,

designers, including related professionals, make when designing or redesigning of places.

Discussion

To improve outpatients care, the United States should spend enormously to proving

facilities specifically to the disadvantaged regions containing people with high chances of

attracting chronic illnesses. Noted clinical health improvements from the patients significantly

impact on the health the healthcare cost. The government should see to it that all the people are

insured with well-equipped healthcare service provider nationally. This will cater for the medical

expenses that can otherwise not be afforded financially with the non-employed in the remote

areas. The studies have proved that those with medical insurance cover survive in critical chronic

condition than those who do not have (Kelley et al. 2017). Thence this opportunity should be

enabled for all the citizens. More priority should be given to patients with several combined

diseases as their rates of hospitalization costs and accommodation is expensive for no potential

income. The generic name for conditions is Comorbid disease. More physical therapy and active
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training should be presented to these people like cycling, walking, running, eating healthy foods,

and maintain the health overall health status.

Healthy spaces and places can be considered to be a practical guide on good practice for

active living in which the communities attain the development types. These principles can be

applied, designed policies for positive health and well-being of a member of the city. Some of

the laws are:

 Aesthetics: is the how the beauty of a place can modify the lookout of home and modify

people's view and use of an area such as walking, viewing, and talking. If the

neighborhood is attractive to people to come to use the available space.

 Supporting infrastructure: these are contrivances that foster repeated and daily physical

practices such as walking along with the water fountains, footpaths, and roads. Cycling in

bike paths, bike lockers. Public transport, social interaction, and recreational centers.

 Active transport: is the travel mode that involves physical exercise such as cycling or

walking, it can as well include the use of public transportation that means walking.

 Connectivity: is the direct linkage of several paths, road networks, streets for suitable

places and spaces. It enables activities such as cycling and walking between the locations

and around the neighborhood.

 Density: Refers to the total number of people who dwell in a particular place or it is the

population of people who live in a given area.

These are kinds of situations and areas that should be identified and created in the urban

centers in Uganda for better development of proper planning and design. People from these

places live long lives and have healthy lives brought about as a result of the environment

(Awad, 2018). To plan for healthy spaces and areas thus calls for a commitment to applying
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the sound planning principles to come up with a complete system. Regardless of the scale

and level of operation, the policies should be practiced.

Conclusion

The implementation of the excellent plan of healthy spaces and places can be pioneered

with the fitness of the community members. In terms of their health, social status, and their

environment, it necessary that every member society strives towards making a little paradise

in their places of work, playgrounds, residential locations, and everywhere in general.

Matters of health and well-being of people can only be perfect to some point when each

individual takes precautions against his or her health. The urban Uganda development plan

for healthy spaces and places should consider the above suggestion. In addition to other done

researches to come up with a very concrete urban development plan that is healthy for human

health.
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