scholarly journals Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Horney ◽  
Caroline Dwyer ◽  
Bea Vendrell-Velez ◽  
Galen Newman
Keyword(s):  
Scoring System ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Healthy Community

scholarly journals Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Horney ◽  
Caroline Dwyer ◽  
Bea Vendrell-Velez ◽  
Galen Newman
Keyword(s):  
Scoring System ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Healthy Community

A comprehensive scoring system to measure healthy community design in land use plans and regulations

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. S141-S147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Maiden ◽  
Marina Kaplan ◽  
Lee Ann Walling ◽  
Patricia P. Miller ◽  
Gina Crist
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Scoring System ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Healthy Community

scholarly journals Community design indicators and neighbourhood population health

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Smith
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Metro Vancouver ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Healthy Community

OBJECTIVE – Healthy community design is an emerging paradigm that unites the fields of Urban Planning and Public Health. This study calculates a comprehensive set of community design indicators (CDIs) using open data sets and links results to a wide range of health measures. METHODS – A literature review informed creation of a comprehensive CDI framework and indicators were calculated using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for 106 neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Correlations were then evaluated between CDIs and both built environment and health measures from the My Health My Community (MHMC) survey. RESULTS – Several CDIs had moderate correlations with one or more health measures. In particular, there were many associations between CDIs and rates of utilitarian walking and levels of obesity. DISCUSSION – This study supports professional practice related to evidence-based stakeholder engagement and decision-making, performance-based planning and design, measurement of health, economic and environmental performance of communities, and intersectoral collaborations that create a healthy community design vision and action-oriented implementation strategies.

scholarly journals Community design indicators and neighbourhood population health

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Smith
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Metro Vancouver ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Healthy Community

OBJECTIVE – Healthy community design is an emerging paradigm that unites the fields of Urban Planning and Public Health. This study calculates a comprehensive set of community design indicators (CDIs) using open data sets and links results to a wide range of health measures. METHODS – A literature review informed creation of a comprehensive CDI framework and indicators were calculated using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for 106 neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Correlations were then evaluated between CDIs and both built environment and health measures from the My Health My Community (MHMC) survey. RESULTS – Several CDIs had moderate correlations with one or more health measures. In particular, there were many associations between CDIs and rates of utilitarian walking and levels of obesity. DISCUSSION – This study supports professional practice related to evidence-based stakeholder engagement and decision-making, performance-based planning and design, measurement of health, economic and environmental performance of communities, and intersectoral collaborations that create a healthy community design vision and action-oriented implementation strategies.

If we build it, who will come? The case for attention to equity in healthy community design

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 467-468
Author(s):  
Meridith Sones ◽  
Daniel Fuller ◽  
Yan Kestens ◽  
Meghan Winters
Keyword(s):  
Community Design ◽  
Healthy Community

An Investigation of the Assumptions Underlying the Scoring System of the Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale: Revised

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Richard J. Schissel ◽  
Linda B. James
Keyword(s):  
Scoring System ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence

This study examines the assumptions underlying the scoring system of the Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale: Revised. Twenty-one children between the ages of four years two months and six years 11 months were administered the Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale: Revised and the Screening Deep Test of Articulation. The subjects' performance on the two tests was compared for the phones: [s], [l], [r], [t∫], [θ], [∫], [k], [f], and [t]. Results suggested that 1) the production of most sounds in only two contexts does not necessarily reflect the accuracy of production of those sounds in other contexts, and 2) for the sounds tested, the weightings assigned on the basis of their frequency of occurrence rather than the frequency with which they were misarticulated overestimated the extent of many articulation errors.

Qualitative and quantitative assessment of nailfold capillaries by capillaroscopy in healthy volunteers

VASA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoerth ◽  
Kundi ◽  
Katzenschlager ◽  
Hirschl
Keyword(s):  
Scoring System ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Connective Tissue Diseases ◽  
Capillary Density ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Extreme Position ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Diffuse Loss ◽  
Density Results

Background: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NVC) is a diagnostic tool particularly useful in the differential diagnosis of rheumatic and connective tissue diseases. Although successfully applied since many years, little is known about prevalence and distribution of NVC changes in healthy individuals. Probands and methods: NVC was performed in 120 individuals (57 men and 63 women; age 18 to 70 years) randomly selected according to predefined age and sex strata. Diseases associated with NVC changes were excluded. The nailfolds of eight fingers were assessed according to standardized procedures. A scoring system was developed based on the distribution of the number of morphologically deviating capillaries, microhaemorrhages, and capillary density. Results: Only 18 individuals (15 %) had no deviation in morphology, haemorrhages, or capillary density on any finger. Overall 67 % had morphological changes, 48 % had microhaemorrhages, and 40 % of volunteers below 40 years of age and 18 % above age 40 had less than 8 capillaries/mm. Among morphological changes tortous (43 %), ramified (47 %), and bushy capillaries (27 %) were the most frequently altered capillary types. A semiquantitative scoring system was developed in such a way that a score above 1 indicates an extreme position (above the 90th percentile) in the distribution of scores among healthy individuals. Conclusions: Altered capillaries occur frequently among healthy individuals and should be interpreted as normal unless a suspicious increase in their frequency is determined by reference to the scoring system. Megacapillaries and diffuse loss of capillaries were not found and seem to be of specific diagnostic value.

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