Identifying the Dimensions and Components of the Health-oriented Urban Form with An Emphasis on the Epidemic Disease: A systematic scoping review

Subject Areas : Creative City Design

Helia  Sareminia ¹ (PhD candidate, Department of urbanism, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.)
Fatemeh  Mohammadniay Gharaei ² (Assistant professor, Department of Urbanism, Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.)
sanaz  saeidi mofrad ³ (Assistant professor, Depatment of urbanism, Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad univesity, Mashhad, Iran.)
Sulmaz  Ghahramani ⁴ (Department of Urbanism, Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran|Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.)

Received: 2023-01-02 Accepted : 2023-05-01 Published : 2023-04-01

Keywords: Urban Health, Urban Form, Technology, nature, epidemic diseases, Systematic Review,

Abstract :

A review of human history, activity and technology shows that, the changes in the environment and the health of citizens have gone together as an inseparable factor. Cities are complex systems that Recent developments in the lifestyle of people have caused the emergence of non-communicable diseases among the residents of cities. Furthermore, in recent decades, the world has witnessed a variety of emerging infectious diseases, some of which developed to pandemic world threatening outbreaks. This paper, as far as we know of, is the comprehensive and first review to evaluate relationship between the characteristics of urban form and urban health with an emphasis on epidemic diseases. Through a systematic review, the first step, compiled urban form characteristics that affect urban health, and then identified potential synergies and trade-offs between these dimensions. Research sources were examined based on the world's most authoritative scientific database. In the second step, resource retrieval was performed based on keywords, title and abstract, and finally, in the third step, analysis and conceptual model were developed. A framework based on the Health-oriented Urban Form (HUF) is proposed, synthesizing the inter linkages between urban form and urban health; providing a new holistic perspective on the topic. Looking at the communicable and non-communicable disease -physical and non-physical-urban form characteristics - technology and nature relationships simultaneously may contribute to practical guidance opportunity to build better and more sustainable societies and cities.