TY - GEN
T1 - Designing Smart Cities for Citizen Health Well-being
AU - Khayal, Inas S.
AU - Farid, Amro M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/19
Y1 - 2018/10/19
N2 - -Smart cities initiatives invariably include a quest to improve health in the process of making cities smarter. The quest for health improvement is typically passively assumed rather than actively undertaken. This leads to the question of how to design smart cities to take into account citizen health and well-being. We first describe the health factors associated with health outcomes. In doing so, we emphasize the importance of analyzing not only biological factors but the critical social and physical environments where people live work and play - thus highlighting the opportunity for smart cities to impact health. Given that health factors are not expected to have a 1to-1 mapping with social and physical environments, this paper develops the mapping of health factors to social and physical environments. This is accomplished by first describing the health factors impacting health outcomes. Next, health is modeled as state described by discrete event dynamics using Petri-nets. This health model incorporates health factors associated with social and physical environments. Finally, frameworks describing social and physical environments are introduced to develop the mapping of health factors to the social and physical environments. If smart cities are to truly address health, we need to understand where new technology or networked systems affect health factors. The mapping presented in this work explicitly describes the social and physical environments that impact health factors. Such work allows practitioners to account for ways that smart cities initiatives can actively impact health rather than passively hoping to do so.
AB - -Smart cities initiatives invariably include a quest to improve health in the process of making cities smarter. The quest for health improvement is typically passively assumed rather than actively undertaken. This leads to the question of how to design smart cities to take into account citizen health and well-being. We first describe the health factors associated with health outcomes. In doing so, we emphasize the importance of analyzing not only biological factors but the critical social and physical environments where people live work and play - thus highlighting the opportunity for smart cities to impact health. Given that health factors are not expected to have a 1to-1 mapping with social and physical environments, this paper develops the mapping of health factors to social and physical environments. This is accomplished by first describing the health factors impacting health outcomes. Next, health is modeled as state described by discrete event dynamics using Petri-nets. This health model incorporates health factors associated with social and physical environments. Finally, frameworks describing social and physical environments are introduced to develop the mapping of health factors to the social and physical environments. If smart cities are to truly address health, we need to understand where new technology or networked systems affect health factors. The mapping presented in this work explicitly describes the social and physical environments that impact health factors. Such work allows practitioners to account for ways that smart cities initiatives can actively impact health rather than passively hoping to do so.
KW - Index Terms-health well-being
KW - Smart Cities
KW - social and physical environments
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U2 - 10.1109/S3C.2017.8501366
DO - 10.1109/S3C.2017.8501366
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052299287
T3 - 2017 IEEE 1st Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017 - Proceedings
SP - 120
EP - 125
BT - 2017 IEEE 1st Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017 - Proceedings
A2 - Cavalcante, Everton
A2 - Betis, Gilles
A2 - Batista, Thais
A2 - Rossetti, Rosaldo
A2 - Cacho, Nelio
T2 - 1st IEEE Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017
Y2 - 6 August 2017 through 11 August 2017
ER -