The healthy neighbourhood audit instrument: Understanding the environmental and socio-cultural conditions to support healthy, happy and resilient residential communities

7th Australasian Housing Researchers' Conference, AHRC 2013: Refereed Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mitchell, Emily ^a   Thompson, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health; Healthy built environments; Observational audit instrument; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH; HOUSES; MAPPING; URBAN PLANNING;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION; RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES; RESIDENTIAL DENSITY; RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 84915822499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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