Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health
Subtitle: Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 05, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9783319534435
Description: This book 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.
Notes: Source title: Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health: Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity (SpringerBriefs in Public Health)