Full development of Healthy children without disease

Children health is a state of physical, mental, intellectual, social and emotional well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Healthy children live in families, environments, and communities that provide them with the opportunity to reach their fullest developmental potential.

Lessen the food intake to reduce childhood obesity

Childhood obesity and asthma have increased dramatically in the last two decades and are exacerbated by factors in the modern built environment. In addition, recent reductions in childhood injury are directly linked to the introduction of safety measures to housing construction and community and roadway planning. This section summarizes the trends in occurrence of these diseases and their links to risk factors in the built environment.

Overweight occurs when food energy intake exceeds energy, expenditure. The causes of the current obesity epidemic are complex, with inadequate physical activity being a critical factor and it affects health. Physical activity declines when children lack adequate opportunity to exercise during or after school and when they rely on private automobile transportation rather than walking, biking or mass transit. Community and neighborhood design can either promote or hinder physical activity. Design and program strategies such as building sidewalks to encourage walking developing and promoting walk-to-school programs and reducing traffic speeds all are ways to promote children health.

                  

Chronic childhood disease like asthma in health of children

Asthma is now the most common chronic childhood disease, occurring in approximately 54 of every 1000 children. Childhood asthma increased dramatically, by approximately 5% per year. The etiology of asthma is complex and multi factorial; risk factors include genetic predisposition as well as exposure to environmental and infectious triggers. Environmental triggers within the home include allergens from mold, dust mites, cockroaches, and pets indoor air pollutants such as tobacco smoke volatile organic compounds  and combustion by-products .Outdoor triggers include respiratory irritant air pollutants such as ground-level ozone and respirable particulate matter  and allergens such as soy dust that affect children health greatly.

Research strongly suggests that controlling such environmental asthma triggers as allergens and air pollutants would substantially enhance c health. For example some of the colleagues recently estimated that elimination of residential risk factors for asthma would reduce 39% of asthma diagnoses in the United States, at a cost savings of several million. The colleagues evaluated whether asthma events were reduced during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, when Atlanta instituted a plan to reduce automobile congestion through widespread use of public transportation .These efforts lead to a 22% decline in traffic counts; a 28% decline in daily ozone concentrations; and most importantly, a 41 % decrease in asthma acute-care events.

Child health initiated to adult health and well being

 This is foundational to adult health and well-being. When children’s health is nurtured and supported and there is an absence of physical and mental abuse, or other intentional childhood trauma; and there exists opportunities to gain habits that support health during childhood, the stage is set for a healthy adulthood less likely to include chronic health problems such as overweight or obesity, poor oral health, diabetes and other chronic physical and mental health problems.