Health and physical activity in urban neighbourhoods. Case study: Shah Alam City, Selangor, Malaysia / Oliver Ling Hoon Leh … [et al.]

Ling, Oliver Hoon Leh and Mohamed Musthafa, Siti Nur Afiqah and Hamzah, Muhammad Solahuddin and Marzukhi, Marlyana Azyyati and Mabahwi, Nurul Ashikin (2020) Health and physical activity in urban neighbourhoods. Case study: Shah Alam City, Selangor, Malaysia / Oliver Ling Hoon Leh … [et al.]. Built Environment Journal (BEJ), 17 (2). pp. 11-20. ISSN 1675-5022

Abstract

Environmental health is referring to the health of people in relation to environmental quality. Due to rapid urbanisation, more people are living in urban neighbourhoods. Urban planning and design aspects including the neighbourhood environment are potentially affecting the human healthy lifestyle and health condition. Thus, the relationship between Malaysian neighbourhood environmental aspects and human health has become the concern of this research. One of the neighbourhood units in Shah Alam city had been chosen as the study area for this purpose. Questionnaire survey had been carried out to examine the health condition and physical activeness of residents. Besides, the perception of residents on the quality of neighbourhood environmental aspects also had been collected in the questionnaire survey. The health condition of residents was measured by non-communicable diseases (NCD) and the physical activeness was measured in duration as well as the frequency of physical exercise activities. The study found that the quality of neighbourhood environmental aspects significantly increased the physical activeness of respondents. The physical activeness was positively associated with human health as measured in NCD (heart diseases and high blood pressure, HBP). It shows that neighbourhood environmental (physical and social) aspects are potentially affecting the healthy life of people living in the neighbourhood.

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Ling, Oliver Hoon Leh
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Mohamed Musthafa, Siti Nur Afiqah
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Hamzah, Muhammad Solahuddin
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Marzukhi, Marlyana Azyyati
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Mabahwi, Nurul Ashikin
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Subjects: N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > City planning. Regional planning
N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > Urban beautification > Malaysia
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
Journal or Publication Title: Built Environment Journal (BEJ)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Built Environment Journal (BEJ)
ISSN: 1675-5022
Volume: 17
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 11-20
Keywords: Healthy life, Neighbourhood environment, Non-communicable diseases (NCD)
Date: July 2020
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41970
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