Walls Kelvin L, Boulic Mikael, Boddy John W D
Building Code Consultants Ltd., P.O. Box 99613, Newmarket, Auckland 1149, New Zealand.
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Auckland 0745, New Zealand.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Sep 27;13(10):956. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13100956.
The United Nations "25 × 25 Strategy" of decreasing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, by 25% by 2025 does not appear to take into account all causes of NCDs. Its focus is on a few diseases, which are often linked with life-style factors with "voluntary" "modifiable behavioral risk factors" causes tending towards an over-simplification of the issues. We propose to add some aspects of our built environment related to hazardous building materials, and detailed form of the construction of infrastructure and buildings, which we think are some of the missing causes of NCDs. Some of these could be termed "involuntary causes", as they relate to factors that are beyond the control of the general public.
联合国“25×25战略”旨在到2025年将包括心血管疾病、糖尿病、癌症和慢性呼吸道疾病在内的非传染性疾病减少25%,但该战略似乎并未考虑到非传染性疾病的所有成因。其重点关注的是少数几种疾病,这些疾病往往与生活方式因素相关,其“自愿的”“可改变的行为风险因素”成因往往使问题过于简单化。我们建议增加一些与有害建筑材料相关的建筑环境方面内容,以及基础设施和建筑的详细建设形式,我们认为这些是一些被遗漏的非传染性疾病成因。其中一些可被称为“非自愿成因”,因为它们涉及普通公众无法控制的因素。