BookStamatina Th. Rassia.
Summary: This book analyzes the potential for the workplace environment--where so many people spend so much of their day--to improve workers' capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in encouraging physical activity to promote physical activity, health and prevent disease. The featured research study tracks workers' movement in a variety of office layouts, addressing possible ways movement-friendly design can co-exist with wireless communication, paperless offices, and new corporate concepts of productivity. From these findings, the author's conclusions extend public health concepts to recognize that influencing population-wide levels of activity through office architectural design alone may be possible.
Contents:
Physical activity and health promotion
Office building: a brief historical overview
Current office design, user activity and occupancy evaluation
Introduction to methods for measuring activity
Selected research methods of data collection
Research data collection
Data collection results
statistical analysis
KINESIS model
Discussion
Conclusion.