Question

Suppose you are budgeting a program to reduce obesity, and your primary intervention is to build a “walkable community” where residences, stores, dining, and service providers are short distances apart and are connected by sidewalks, paths, and public transportation. It’s a massive project on a tight time line. Identify the four elements of the Triple Constraint (bulleted list with definition/ description of each), and explain how changes in one element might induce changes in at least two other elements (1-3 sentences for each affected element). Be sure that the directionality of each change is indicated.

Answer 1

To budget a program to reduce obesity, one has to consider to build a community complex where the residences, attached with stores, paths, dinning, service provisions has to near by within a short distance which should be well connected with walkways, paths accessable public transportation. This is indeed a massive project and need lot of consideration.

Walking is a particularly accessible form of physical activity. Walking for 20 minutes burns about the same number of calories as running for 10 minutes, and has shown significant reduction in becoming overweight or obese.

moderate walking lead to a significant reduction in heart disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes and pain from arthritis. It reduces stress, anxiety and depression, and improves sleep, creativity, memory and cognitive performance for all.

A community is one where residents can reach a wide range of amenities such as grocery stores, doctor’s clinics, restaurants, drug stores, parks and schools, safely and easily by foot.

Walking, cycling and transit are mutually supportive modes of transportation that need to work together with the walkable communities. These modes help to extend the reach of people on foot and reduce the need to drive.

• Community design and the built environment affect human health and well being. This provides health advocates with a concrete path forward to improve health.
• Deep breadth of elements of community planning, design, and development are addressed, to promote the use of rain gardens to improve local water quality to establish municipal policies that plan for a healthier future.
• This includes the study of the direct pathological effects of various chemical, physical, and biological agents, the effects on health of the broad physical and social environment, includes housing, urban development, landuse and transportation, industry, and agriculture.