Guest Author: Nancy Bruning B.A., MPH Nancercize, The Benchmark in Outdoor Fitness “Green Gyms” are a way to encourage people to exercise outdoors. They can both help reduce our abysmally low rates of physical activity while addressing the related contemporary health problem of nature deficit disorder. Public parks are convenient, free, and appealing outdoor …
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Guest Author: Patrice Gillespie Smith NEAT Streets Miami, Parks Recreation and Open Spaces Trees — they are everywhere, right? Well, guess again. According to the recently released Miami-Dade Urban Tree Canopy Study, in Miami-Dade County we only have 20 percent tree canopy—which means only 1/5 of our land is covered in nice cool shade. Yet, …
At Active Design Miami (ADM) we love, and we mean LOVE, trees. Walk outdoors on a hot, humid South Florida day and you’ll be begging for the shade of treelined streets and sidewalks. Unfortunately, Miami-Dade’s shade percentage stands at a mere 14 percent, when a healthy urban forest should be 30 percent. This lack of …
Good health depends on having safe homes that protect us and provide a sense of privacy, security, stability and control. On the flip side, poor quality and inadequate housing contributes to health problems such as infectious and chronic diseases, injuries and poor childhood development. In Miami-Dade County, 33% or 273,240 households experience severe housing problems.* …
FitCity 3 which explored the intersection between health and the built environment was successfully held on February 19, 2016 at the the Miami Center for Architecture & Design in Miami. This year’s conference focused on Active Transportation & Mobility and provided participants an opportunity to deepen their understanding of how our transportation and mobility development in Miami-Dade has an …
Miamians might be getting themselves in some hot water and were not talking about a visit to the beach. Our community health outlook tells us we need to start taking steps, quite literally, towards better health. For instance, obesity among Florida adults is on track to hit 58.6% by 2030. That’s more than double the …
