健康生活，减少对卫生服务的依赖

The developed world is experiencing a perfect storm of exponential growth in medical science. 我们可以治愈更多的疾病, but the resulting longevity increase has resulted in spiralling health costs. Free market environments such as the US now spend nearly 20%的GDP用于医疗, yet their citizens are about to lose their hard fought safety net of Obamacare. 托管医疗保健环境, such as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) fund the service through direct taxation, 控制成本 GDP的10% through direct and indirect rationing of the service.

However, the overstretched NHS is in the news every day. There is general agreement that the root causes of the problem are the increasing levels of expectation placed on our health services in parallel with an increase in the range of treatments that can now be delivered. 在许多情况下，这会导致太多 老年病人在医院接受治疗 when other community settings or home care could support them. Coupled with continuing pressures on social care budgets, 婴儿潮一代70多岁, we now have a potential demographic ‘time bomb’ that will swamp the health service if this issue is not addressed.

也就是说，并不是所有人都输了. 2000年， 2020年愿景 predicted that by 2020 there would be a revolution in our attitudes to maintaining our own health through direct access to the internet and increased awareness of the dangers of smoking, 酗酒与肥胖. 吸烟和酗酒是有害的 下降 and exercise is becoming more popular, all leading to better long-term health. This trend towards self-awareness and healthy living should reduce our passive use of precious community health and hospital services. 在串联, we are seeing a growing consciousness of health and wellbeing issues penetrating the construction market place.

人们越来越意识到这一点 城市规划设计 can contribute to healthy living and potentially reduce reliance on health services. 英国国民医疗服务体系已经通过其 健康新市镇 倡议，试图证明如何, 通过有效的总体规划, 健康可以被设计到建筑环境中. When coupled with new models of care and supportive technology, the initiative will demonstrate how development can help address this global challenge. The 健康新市镇 programme is an innovation programme for NHS England, 和创新, 无论是在护理模式中, 新的工作方式, or new development typologies provides our societies with the evidence that there are viable solutions.

气候变化的挑战, accelerating urbanisation and political extremism make the future design of our cities and communities of crucial importance to our future survival, 更不用说我们的繁荣了. Future health provision cannot be separated from the development of the overall environment.

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