Hamara Healthy Living Centre - an evaluation

Hamara is a Healthy Living Centre which aims to improve health and well-being through providing a range of culturally appropriate activities and services. Hamara has a vision of 'bringing communities together' and since it was established in 2004, the Centre has provided a valuable community resource in South Leeds. Partnership work between Hamara and Leeds Met goes back to 2002. In 2007, the Centre for Health Promotion Research carried out an evaluation of Hamara in partnership with Hamara staff and Leeds Met Community Partnerships and Volunteering. This was followed by a highly successful community cohesion conference 'One Community' which was held at Hamara on 10th October 2008, and was supported through a Leeds Met public engagement grant. The event attracted over a hundred people from diverse communities and organisations across Leeds. A packed audience heard Hilary Benn, local MP and Patron of Hamara, talk about the importance of working in collaboration around community cohesion. Jane South, Centre for Health Promotion Research, presented the main evaluation results and set out the some challenges for the future. The proceedings concluded with the presentation of awards to a number of for local community champions who work to bring people together and make a real difference in the city of Leeds

Perencanaan dan Desain Healthy Living di Ruang Publik Apartemen Sudirman Suites, Bandung

Perencanaan dan Desain Healthy Living di Ruang Publik, Apartemen Sudirman Suites, Bandung Anita, J. Pahlefi, M. M., Putri, D. P., Sobari, M. H., Aryanti, D. N. Jurusan Teknik Arsitektur, Fakultas Teknik Sipil dan Perencanaan Institut Teknologi Nasional Email : [email protected] ABSTRAK Apartemen merupakan salah satu hunian vertikal yang sedang berkembang pesat di kota-kota besar. Pertumbuhan dan pertambahan penduduk serta semakin sedikit dan mahalnya harga tanah meyebabkan kebutuhan akan hunian ikut meningkat. Apartemen merupakan salah satu solusi untuk permasalahan tersebut. Perencanan apartemen harus memperhatikan kebutuhan pengguna, terutama tersedianya ruang-ruang publik untuk mendukung aktivitas dan kesehatan penghuni. Dengan bentuk seperti huruf “U” dan mengusung konsep healthy living, apartemen Sudirman Suites di Bandung tidak hanya memberikan hunian pada bangunannya, sebagai penunjang konsep healthy living ruang publik ruang publik berupa inner court untuk tempat sosialisasi penghuni. Ruang publik pada apartemen ini merupakan salah satu penunjang konsep healthy living pada bangunan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui klasifikasi, letak, layout, dan pola arsitektur ruang publik pada bangunan Apartemen Sudriman dan penerapan konsep healthy living pada ruang publik tersebut. Metode penelitian dilakukan melalui wawancara dengan pengelola dan pengamatan langsung di lapangan. Kajian ini diharapkan bisa menjadi bahan referensi bagi perancang untuk merancang ruang publik atau mengaplikasikan konsep healthy living pada hunian vertikal. Kata Kunci : apartemen, healthy living, ruang publik ABSTRACT Apartment is one of the vertical housing that is growing rapidly in large cities . Population growth as well as the less and high prices led to the need for residential land has increased. The apartment is one solution to these problems . Planning the apartment must be attentive to the needs of users, particularly the availability of public spaces to support the activity and health of occupants. Shaped like the letter " U " and promote the concept of healthy living , the apartment Sudirman Hotel in Bandung not only provide shelter in the building , but also supporting the concept of healthy living. It provide inner court design as a place for the occupants to socialize with one another. The public rooms in this apartment are support facilities for concept of healthy living. This study aims to determine the classification, location, layout and architectural patterns of public space in the Sudriman Apartment building and application of the concept of healthy living in public spaces . Methods of research conducted through interviews with employees and direct observations in the field. This study is expected to be a reference for designers to design public space or to apply the concept of healthy living in the vertical housin

Healthy Living An In-Depth Look

Features Dr. Ritu Grewal, pulmonologist and attending physician at Jefferson Sleep Disorder Center Women\u27s Program

Healthy Living in Hard Times

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among heavy smokers, the fall in body weight among the severely obese, and the increase in exercise among those who were completely inactive. Declining work hours may provide one reason why behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle investments. Conversely, there is little evidence that reductions in income play an important role. The overall conclusion is that changes in behaviors supply one mechanism for the procyclical variation in mortality and morbidity observed in recent research.

Increasing awareness of healthy eating through the use of performing arts: An evaluation of the StarBites project

This project report discusses an evaluation of StarBites - a joint initiative between the arts for health and foods for health strands of Halton's Healthy Living Programme. StarBites aims to convey healthy eating messages through drama, dance, poetry, and music performed by school children.Halton's Healthy Living programm

Redox homeostasis: The Golden Mean of healthy living

The notion that electrophiles serve as messengers in cell signaling is now widely accepted. Nonetheless, major issues restrain acceptance of redox homeostasis and redox signaling as components of main- tenance of a normal physiological steady state. The first is that redox signaling requires sudden switching on of oxidant production and bypassing of antioxidant mechanisms rather than a continuous process that, like other signaling mechanisms, can be smoothly turned up or down. The second is the mis- perception that reactions in redox signaling involve “reactive oxygen species” rather than reaction of specific electrophiles with specific protein thiolates. The third is that hormesis provides protection against oxidants by increasing cellular defense or repair mechanisms rather than by specifically ad- dressing the offset of redox homeostasis. Instead, we propose that both oxidant and antioxidant signaling are main features of redox homeostasis. As the redox shift is rapidly reversed by feedback reactions, homeostasis is maintained by continuous signaling for production and elimination of electrophiles and nucleophiles. Redox homeostasis, which is the maintenance of nucleophilic tone, accounts for a healthy physiological steady state. Electrophiles and nucleophiles are not intrinsically harmful or protective, and redox homeostasis is an essential feature of both the response to challenges and subsequent feedback. While the balance between oxidants and nucleophiles is preserved in redox homeostasis, oxidative stress provokes the establishment of a new radically altered redox steady state. The popular belief that scavenging free radicals by antioxidants has a beneficial effect is wishful thinking. We propose, instead, that continuous feedback preserves nucleophilic tone and that this is supported by redox active nutri- tional phytochemicals. These nonessential compounds, by activating Nrf2, mimic the effect of en- dogenously produced electrophiles (parahormesis). In summary, while hormesis, although globally protective, results in setting up of a new phenotype, parahormesis contributes to health by favoring maintenance of homeostasis