#62: Helen Pineo - Healthy Urbanism from Planetary to Building Scales
Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
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Do You Have a Go-to Definition of Health?
A lot of people would draw on the World Health Organization definition of health, which focuses on the absence of disease and well-being. And I think a more holistic definition of health that I provide in the book thinks about our capabilities to deal with the issues that we are faced with in life. So it could be thinking about it from an infectious disease perspective and what kinds of capabilities and resources we have to face that virus. But it could also be in relation to something more like a mental health resources. Do we have the mental health resources to also rest would be important, but social connection and other factors within our wider environment that may help us to deal with any kinds of stressors in life
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