ImplicationsVOL.
05 ISSUE 04
A Newsletter by InformeDesign.
A Web site for design and human behavior research.
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According to Richard Jackson...
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ImplicationsVOL.
05 ISSUE 04
A Newsletter by InformeDesign.
A Web site for design and human behavior research.
www.
informedesign.
umn.
edu
IN THIS ISSUE
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According to Richard Jackson (2001), of
the Center for Disease Control (CDC):
The current design of our communities
has created new health problems.
Medicine will not be adequate to deal with the
health challenges of the 21st century, not
even with the help of the sequenced genome and advances in robotic surgery.
Even though the United States spends one
of every seven dollars on medical care, we
will not significantly improve health and
the quality of life unless we pay more attention to how we design our living environments.
Healthy living environments include not just a clean and heated kitchen,
bath or bedroom, but also the landscape
around us.
Health for all, especially for the
young, aging, poor and disabled, requires
that we design healthfulness into
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