Al-Obaidi Tamara, Prior Jason, McIntyre Erica
Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
PLoS One. 2025 Aug 6;20(8):e0329879. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329879. eCollection 2025.
In Australia, and internationally, a shift is occurring towards high-density apartment living with initiatives and research showing an increased interest in the relations between health, wellbeing and apartment buildings. This study explores the complex associations between residents' perceptions of their health and wellbeing and the apartment buildings where they live within the context of Sydney, Australia, as the case study. It challenges the fragmented approach previously used to study healthy apartment living and their underlying assumptions that do not account for a coupled human-environment systems view of health and wellbeing concerning apartment living. Qualitative research was used, which included in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 17 residents living in different apartment buildings, supplemented by fieldwork and narrated photographs. Using a structured iterative thematic analysis process, 20 areas of health and wellbeing influence (themes) were identified and further categorised using synthetic thinking into diverse, context-dependent, multilevel, and pervading influences. The findings from this exploratory study suggest a complex view of health and wellbeing by residents of apartment buildings and provide novel and important insights that have not been previously reported in such breadth.
在澳大利亚乃至国际上，正出现一种向高密度公寓生活转变的趋势，相关倡议和研究表明，人们对健康、幸福与公寓建筑之间的关系越来越感兴趣。本研究以澳大利亚悉尼为案例，探讨居民对自身健康和幸福的认知与他们居住的公寓建筑之间的复杂关联。它挑战了此前用于研究健康公寓生活的碎片化方法及其未考虑人与环境耦合系统视角下公寓生活健康与幸福的潜在假设。研究采用了定性研究方法，包括对居住在不同公寓楼的17名居民进行深入的半结构化访谈，并辅以实地考察和图片叙述。通过结构化的迭代主题分析过程，确定了20个健康与幸福影响领域（主题），并运用综合思维进一步将其归类为不同的、依赖情境的、多层次的和普遍存在的影响。这项探索性研究的结果表明公寓楼居民对健康和幸福有着复杂的看法，并提供了此前未在如此广度上报道过的新颖且重要的见解。
