People in western countries spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. This severely affects their health (WHO 2013; Klepeis et al. 2001). The health risks are exacerbated if people travel between indoor spaces by car or public transport. Buildings on streets specifically designed to create a human …

People in western countries spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. This severely affects their health (WHO 2013; Klepeis et al. 2001). The health risks are exacerbated if people travel between indoor spaces by car or public transport. Buildings on streets specifically designed to create a human …

From the article: Abstract Business rules (BR’s) play a critical role in an organization’s daily activities. With the increased use of BR (solutions) and ever increasing change frequency of BR’s the interest in modifiability guidelines that address the manageability of BR’s has increased as well. A …

Objective: The aim was to create a reliable information provisioning system in healthcare for both care and research processes, based on existing data standards and standardized electronic messages. The research question is: How can a Clinical Data Ware House (CDWH) be developed for standardized basic …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major and complex problem, resulting from the interaction of individual metabolic, genetic, and psychological factors with meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents, with their rapid changes in body composition, together with their shift in orientation from …

In order to be able to age in place, Dutch elderly are being housed in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) for over 25 years. Here they can live independently and rely on care and services. The physical scale of ALFs ranges from 30 up to 300 residents. This paper presents the findings of a multiple case …

Er is in Lagos (Nigeria) een grote vraag naar goede woningen voor de middenklasse. Onder de noemer INEX houses (inexpensive houses) hebben twee Bouwkundestudenten zich gericht op sterke verbetering van de woonomstandigheden aldaar. Het belangrijkste uitgangspunt was de verbetering van de hygiënische …

Since the eighties, Dutch residents of care homes have been housed in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) in order to age in place and live with higher social quality of housing. Scale, group mix and social quality of housing of these ALFs has not yet been explored. Initiators decide on experience and …

Het inleidende artikel van de auteurs over Cradle to Cradle in de Zorg is verschenen in januari 2009, het artikel over Cradle to Cradle in de Zorg, “De Verpleegkamer” is verschenen in FMT 8/9 2010. In een latere uitgave van FMT zal het onderzoek naar een couveuse worden gepubliceerd. In het onderzoek …

Het Lectoraat ZorgGericht Bouwen van de Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen voert onderzoek “Cradle to Cradle in de zorg” uit. In dit project zijn een verpleegkamer, een operatiekamer en een couveusekamer onderzocht op materiaalgebruik. Dit derde artikel in de reeks C2C beschrijft het onderzoek “De Couveusekamer”. …