Theoretical Review on Environmental Health in Relation to Neighbourhood Planning and Human Physical Activity

Musthafa, Siti Nur Afiqah Mohamed; Leh, Oliver Ling Hoon; Omar, Dasimah; Karuppannan, Subramaniam

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.182

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“…Another issue is the selection of the area for biomass facilities setup where the location must be in the right place, convenient to the public. In addition to ensuring planning standards and buffering is in place (Musthafa et al 2015) facilities need to be set up in an area that has high waste generation. The third issue is the sustainability of organic waste supply is highly linked to a successful source separation program, and the residents may be unaware or need to be trained with, proper knowledge of this.…”

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Bio Mass Initiative; Awareness and Practice: Case study, Subang Jaya

Kamaruddin¹,

Sharif²,

Misni³

et al. 2017

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Public awareness and active engagement in environmental programmes are associated with a better quality of life (Kamaruddin et.al. 2016;Mohit 2016). This exploratory study highlights the level of awareness and practice of residents in the bio mass initiative of a case study area. Self reported descriptive responses indicate that having awareness and knowledge regarding waste management does not necessarily result in actual sustainable waste practice. This paradox is consistent with other findings of similar studies (Kamaruddin et.al. 2016). Practical steps are identified to encourage residents and help sustain the bio mass initiative programme implemented by a local authority in Selangor, Malaysia.

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Bio Mass Initiative; Awareness and Practice: Case study, Subang Jaya

Kamaruddin¹,

Sharif²,

Misni³

et al. 2017

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“…Urban farming can give urban dwellers supplementary incomes through the surplus agricultural output and for creating a safe and peaceful urban environment through environmental design principles, security and community development. In addition, physical activities of urban farming help to upgrade the productivity of urban dwellers through gains in their physical and mental health (Musthafa et al, 2015). It can also foster awareness, interest and participation in agriculture; resulting in increased prosperity and happiness in the urban environment.…”

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Community Expectancy in Urban Farming Participation

Othman

Latip

Ariffin

et al. 2018

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Urban farming is seen as a sustainable practice with the social, economic and urban environment benefits. Despite the efforts by the government, there is lack of public participation in urban farming activities and challenges in sustaining urban farming participants’ interest. The study is aimed at measuring urban farming participation motivations using the Expectancy Theory of Motivation which is made up of three aspects; namely expectancy, instrumentality and valence. This paper describes the findings regarding the expectancy aspect of motivation (measured by using Expectancy theory) in urban farming activity in Malaysia.Keywords: Expectancy, Urban farming, Motivational factor, Sustainable practice.eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i13.157

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“…They refer to those theoretical and practical evaluations which potentially influence human health. 2 In fact, general health and welfare of the society can be provided in a healthy environment; so that the most important contribution of environmental health to the society is providing healthy resources along with a healthy environment. 3,4 Not paying attention to these issues can cause a lot of problems for human health in the societies.…”

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“…8,9 Those kinds of prioritizations which are based on the selection of limited resources are related to what we should do and not to do. 10 Society's environmental health and its prioritization have two main presuppositions: (1) in spite of high environmental health demands, the required resources are limited; (2) in spite of the similarity of demands to each other, their intensity and their spatial-temporal prioritizations are different. 11 Various studies indicated that some of the health demands which are proposed by the society include water, air, wastewater, garbage, and food health.…”

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Prioritization of Environmental Health Programs in Kashan from the Society’s Perspective in Comparison with the Perspective of Other Involved Groups

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2018

JCD

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Introduction and Objectives:The necessity of responding to the increasing welfare, physical, mental, social, and spiritual demands of people in one hand. Therefore, this study aims to prioritize the environmental health programs in Kashan from the Society's perspective and compare it with the priorities of other involved groups.Methodology: This is a cross sectional study which is carried out qualitatively and quantitatively in August and September, 2016. Some surveys are done with higher than 18 years old citizens of Kashan as a sample. This study has 727 participants, including 560 random samples from those people who are covered by 15 urban health care centers, environmental health experts (50), faculty members of Kashan Health School (14), city managers (29), and Non-Governmental Organization members (NGO) (74). The study tools are self-regulation questionnaires with 74 questions. SPSS 16 software along with Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Repeated Measure, Mann-Whitney Test, and Kruskal-Wallis Test are used for data analysis and binary comparisons. Results:The first priority of the society is "health control of hospitals, clinics and health care centers" with the mean score of 4.47. The comparison of perspective of under study groups on 15 programs indicated that there is no significant difference between all groups for 13 programs (PV >0.05). Conclusion:Since there are many adjacent ideas regarding environmental health in Kashan between different groups, all the programs should be taken into consideration. Moreover, society's perspective about environmental health prioritization can be relied on.

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Theoretical Review on Environmental Health in Relation to Neighbourhood Planning and Human Physical Activity

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Bio Mass Initiative; Awareness and Practice: Case study, Subang Jaya

Bio Mass Initiative; Awareness and Practice: Case study, Subang Jaya

Community Expectancy in Urban Farming Participation

Prioritization of Environmental Health Programs in Kashan from the Society’s Perspective in Comparison with the Perspective of Other Involved Groups

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