Sarah
This is interesting. As I worked in a faculty of medicine for three years before joining design (and advising honours and PubHealth students on their research projects) I had done a similar systematic survey using PubMed and some of the other databases you mention. The point is there is a wealth of information examining the positive health effects of environmental design on people and the resource you mention is useful. This is as area where interdisciplianry teams (built environment in general - architecture, graphic, industrial design, landscape architecture (parks and reserves and health)) seem to provide the greatest potential for community/socially responsible design. Talking to health people also reuires some knowledge of the new public health discourse which has a mixed methods preference at least in Australia. Gavin Melles
Swinburne University of Technology
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