Healthy People and the Design Sciences The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advances the Frontier

摘要

The concerns addressed in the papers of this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine-the science of understanding and mobilizing community action around the health implications of our built spaces and places-are central to our health futures. Our most fundamental national aspirations for improving the human condition simply cannot be achieved without deeper insights into the ways the built environment shapes peoples' lifestyles, health, and well-being. The importance of this reality was once again underscored with the release in December 2010 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services of Healthy People 2020, the nation's health objectives for the decade.