PMID- 32888156
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210405
LR  - 20210405
IS  - 1468-2869 (Electronic)
IS  - 1099-3460 (Print)
IS  - 1099-3460 (Linking)
VI  - 97
IP  - 6
DP  - 2020 Dec
TI  - Indicators of Healthy Architecture-a Systematic Literature Review.
PG  - 899-911
LID - 10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z [doi]
AB  - The design of the built environment plays an important role as a determinant of 
      health. As a society, we are spending an increasing proportion of our time 
      indoors and now spend over 80% of our life inside, so the design of buildings can 
      greatly impact on human health. Accordingly, architecture health indices (AHIs) 
      are used to evidence the effects on human health associated with the design of 
      buildings. AHIs provide quantitative and empirical data upon which architects, 
      clients, users and other stakeholders might monitor and evaluate the healthiness 
      (or otherwise) of architectural design. A systematic literature review was 
      conducted to reveal the current state of knowledge, reveal gaps, explore 
      potential usage and highlight best practice in this area. Whilst there are a 
      number of different health indicators for the built/urban environments more 
      generally, the scope of this review is limited to the scale of a building and 
      specifically those aspects within the remit of a professional architect. In order 
      to examine the range and characteristics of AHIs currently in use, this review 
      explored three electronic bibliographic databases from January 2008 to January 
      2019. A two-stage selection was undertaken and screening against eligibility 
      criteria checklist carried out. From 15 included studies, 127 documents were 
      identified, and these included 101 AHI. A sample of the most commonly used AHIs 
      was then analysed at an item level. The review reveals that most AHIs are limited 
      to measuring communicable diseases that directly affect physical health through 
      e.g. air quality or water quality. There are very few indicators focusing on 
      factors affecting mental and social health; given the increase in mental and 
      social health problems, greater focus on AHIs related to these health issues 
      should be included. Furthermore, the research reveals an absence of AHIs that 
      address non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As the majority of all poor health 
      outcomes globally are now related to NCDs, and many are associated with the 
      design of the built environment, there is an urgent need to address this 
      situation.
FAU - Rice, Louis
AU  - Rice L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8207-5561
AD  - University of the West of England Bristol, Bristol, UK. Louis.Rice@uwe.ac.uk.
FAU - Drane, Mark
AU  - Drane M
AD  - University of the West of England Bristol, Bristol, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Systematic Review
PL  - United States
TA  - J Urban Health
JT  - Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
JID - 9809909
SB  - IM
MH  - *Architecture
MH  - *Built Environment
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Urban Health
PMC - PMC7704814
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Architecture
OT  - Indicators
OT  - Public health
OT  - Urban
OT  - Wellbeing
EDAT- 2020/09/06 06:00
MHDA- 2021/04/07 06:00
PMCR- 2020/09/04
CRDT- 2020/09/05 05:20
PHST- 2020/09/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/04/07 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/09/05 05:20 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/09/04 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z [pii]
AID - 469 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Urban Health. 2020 Dec;97(6):899-911. doi: 10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z.