From elke.miedema at chalmers.se Wed May 6 11:09:45 2020 From: elke.miedema at chalmers.se (Elke Miedema) Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 09:09:45 +0000 Subject: [Aoahealth-members] AoA:s funds for rapid Covid-19 action In-Reply-To: References: <330a75c258c8441dbd781f61f4e05bf4@chalmers.se> <6f8f1bd77a764e5a96f104cf1cf8da39@fhs.gu.se>, Message-ID: Hi all, In line with what Meta proposed i saw this about healthy cities and healthy people: https://www.salus.global/article-show/cities-must-protect-access-to-nature-for-immediate-resilience-and-beyond Elke Miedema (Sent from a handheld device) ________________________________ From: Aoahealth-members on behalf of Meta Berghauser Pont Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:57 AM To: Helle Wijk; Mia Malmstedt; aoahealth-members at lists.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [Aoahealth-members] AoA:s funds for rapid Covid-19 action Hej Helle och Mia, Det l?ter intressant och AoA Transport har ocks? skickat ut en liknande fr?ga men mer inriktat p? att samla data. V?r forskningsgrupp har svarat p? det med tv? ing?ngsvinklar d?r framf?rallt en ?r kopplad till h?lsa. Jag h?r g?rna med er om vi kan s?ka medel f?r att starta upp ett s?dant projekt ihop. Mailet skickades p? Engelska, ?s jag kopierar in mailet som den ?r: We know green areas are important for health and well-being but the current crisis has shown that green areas are an extremely important asset in our urban landscapes. The problems with overcrowded parks sheds another light on how much green is needed if we suddenly all go there and we need it in closer proximity. Especially larger and denser cities face challenges. Now that children are allowed to go out again in Spain, they are restricted to 1km from their home. This puts the urban environment high on the agenda. What if you do not have access to green within 1km? We could refer to this as green deserts like the food deserts in the United States? My idea is to gather data that can be used as indicator of user intensity of green areas in cities (park crowdedness). There is a lot of mobile phone data gathering going on, but it could also be a rather rough proxy such as activities on social media, photos with location identification. Preferably it would be data that can be gathered now, but also can be compared to data of 1 year ago. KTH collects currently more qualitative data on the use of green areas (or more general changes in behaviour as result of the crisis) but my idea would focus more on big data to see changes in patterns of intensity in different green areas taking into account different restrictions to control infection. The latter means that we should do comparisons within countries to control for national policy differences. Within countries, we can do comparisons between cities of various sizes and density. The questions we want to answer are: * How does the urban environments affect crowdedness in green areas during the pandemic? Or, put it differently, which urban form is more resilient for this crisis (cities with many small parks versus large natural reserves; small versus large cities)? * What are the differences of the above in relation to the national policies to reduce infection? Besides understanding changes in behaviour due to CIVID-19, the results would inform urban planning to develop health promoting urban landscapes both that also continue to perform well in a crisis as we have today. Key variables are population density, size of the green areas and their proximity to residents. Let me know what you think. / Meta Meta Berghauser Pont Associate Professor Urban Design Spatial Morphology Group (SMoG) Chalmers University of Technology Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering Sven Hultins gata 6 (room SB-K 395) SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden +46 (0) 73 4233637 meta.berghauserpont at chalmers.se www.smog.chalmers.se www.chalmers.se From: Aoahealth-members On Behalf Of Helle Wijk Sent: den 29 april 2020 09:05 To: Mia Malmstedt ; aoahealth-members at lists.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [Aoahealth-members] AoA:s funds for rapid Covid-19 action Hej, ?r inte ?ven nedanst?ende mail intressant f?r oss? Med v?nliga h?lsningar Helle ________________________________ Helle Wijk Professor Viceprefekt Samverkan Univ. ?versjuksk?terska Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset Institutionen f?r V?rdvetenskap och H?lsa Sahlgrenska Akademin vid G?teborgs Universitet Box 457, 405 30 G?teborg, Sverige +46 733 70 34 62 helle.wijk at gu.se http://caresci.gu.se/forskning/profilomrade/vardmiljoer Helle Wijk RN, Professor Deputy head of Cooperation Institute of Health and Care Science The Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University Box 457, 405 30 Gothenburg Sweden ________________________________ Fr?n: Aoahealth-members > f?r Mia Malmstedt > Skickat: den 29 april 2020 08:43:56 Till: aoahealth-members at lists.chalmers.se ?mne: [Aoahealth-members] AoA:s funds for rapid Covid-19 action Dear all, Do you need a quick, small funding (up to 300 KSEK) to support society with knowledge or other research-related efforts during the acute covid-19 crisis? The Areas of Advance now make a joint effort to enable Chalmers employees to initiate time-limited efforts during spring-autumn 2020. Proposals are assessed on four occasions: May 14, June 11, August 20 and September 17. The ambition is to respond to the proposals within a week. If you have any questions, please contact Bo Norrman, bo.norrman at chalmers.se. Best regards, / Mia Malmstedt (Com.officer AoA Health Engineering) CHALMERS Mia Malmstedt Kommunikat?r | Communications Officer Styrkeomr?de Transport | Transport Area of Advance Styrkeomr?de H?lsa och teknik | Health Engineering Area of Advance +46(0)31-772 38 12 +46(0)723-77 34 22 (mobile) mia.malmstedt at chalmers.se Chalmers tekniska h?gskola | Chalmers University of Technology Adress | Address SE-412 96 G?teborg, Sweden www.chalmers.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: