The importance of community development for health and well-being

作者: Miranda L. Ritterman , S. Leonard Syme

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摘要: Few topics are more important to health than community development. At first, this assertion seems a wild exaggeration when considered in relation other contributors health, such as high-quality medical care, healthy behavior, and good genetic stock. However, substantial evidence reveals that environmental forces also determinants of health. This observation is critical for those involved the development affordable housing enhanced facilities people living low-income neighborhoods. The now shows no matter how elegantly wrought physical solution, efficiently designed park, safe sanitary building, unless neighborhoods can some way participate creation management these facilities, results will not be beneficial we might hope. It turns out that, maximum benefit, improvements must accompanied by social fabric community.

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