The built environment - A missing ‘cause of the causes’ of non- communicable diseases

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dc.citation.issue10
dc.citation.volume13
dc.contributor.authorWalls K
dc.contributor.authorBoulic M
dc.contributor.authorBoddy JWD
dc.date.available2016-10
dc.date.available2016-09-20
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe United Nations “25 × 25 Strategy” of decreasing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, by 25% by 2025 does not appear to take into account all causes of NCDs. Its focus is on a few diseases, which are often linked with life-style factors with “voluntary” “modifiable behavioral risk factors” causes tending towards an over-simplification of the issues. We propose to add some aspects of our built environment related to hazardous building materials, and detailed form of the construction of infrastructure and buildings, which we think are some of the missing causes of NCDs. Some of these could be termed “involuntary causes”, as they relate to factors that are beyond the control of the general public.
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dc.identifierARTN 956
dc.identifier.citationINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2016, 13 (10)
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph13100956
dc.identifier.eissn1660-4601
dc.identifier.elements-id361072
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/11526
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relation.isPartOfINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subjectUnited Nations 25 x 25 Strategy
dc.subjectnon-communicable diseases (NCDs)
dc.subjectbuilt environment
dc.subjecthazardous building materials
dc.subjectinvoluntary causes
dc.subjectglobal NCD burden
dc.subjectmissing NCDs
dc.subjectmissing causes
dc.subjectenvironmental factors
dc.subjectsick building syndrome
dc.titleThe built environment - A missing ‘cause of the causes’ of non- communicable diseases
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences/School of Built Environment
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