[Home ] [Archive]   [ فارسی ]  
:: Main :: About :: Current Issue :: Archive :: Search :: Submit :: Contact ::
Main Menu
Home::
Journal Information::
Articles archive::
For Authors::
For Reviewers::
Registration::
Contact us::
Site Facilities::
ISSN::
::
Search in website

Advanced Search
..
:: Volume 30, Issue 133 (10-2011) ::
JHRE 2011, 30(133): 15-28 Back to browse issues page
What is Healthy House?
Abstract:   (12534 Views)

  Human spends more than 50 percent of his time inside the house studies have shown that the built environment can affect human health. The unhealthy house can cause many diseases. Unhelthy houses increase the number of asthma, respiratory and skin allergies and lung diseases. Also accidents and domestic injuries are more in these houses. In addition unhealthy houses affect mental and social well being such as: depression, isolation, stress and behavioral abnormalities. The “Healthy House” is not just designing healthy and hygienic shelter, but also includes complete physical, mental and social well being in the house and the environment.

 

  4

The purpose of this paper is to study the meaning of the “Healthy House” and categorize the theories to determine the definition and presents the parameters of the subject. This paper includes four major parts. First, will be determined the definition of health, house and healthy housing. Then, will be considered the importance of the subject and the relationship between the health and the house. Then, will be discussed the literature review and its place in architecture and categorized the healthy parameters of housing and its risk factors. Finally, it considers that the major risk factors of diseases in house are contains of: damp, aerosols, dust, noise, domestic injuries, inappropriate materials, lack of sunlight, overcrowding, social isolation and etc. By finding out the appropriate solutions, these problems will be prevented.

Keywords: House, Health, Healthy House, The built environment
Full-Text [PDF 635 kb]   (63 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Research | Subject: General
Received: 2011/10/19 | Published: 2011/10/15
Add your comments about this article
Your username or Email:

CAPTCHA


XML   Persian Abstract   Print


Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:

What is Healthy House?. JHRE 2011; 30 (133) :15-28
URL: http://jhre.ir/article-1-14-en.html


Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Volume 30, Issue 133 (10-2011) Back to browse issues page
فصلنامه مسکن و محیط روستا Journal of Housing and Rural Environment
Persian site map - English site map - Created in 0.05 seconds with 37 queries by YEKTAWEB 4645