Planning for Active Behavior. How the planned envi-ronment contributes to stimulating active behavior for the lower-SES population.
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2023-05-10
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This thesis explores the lifestyle and mentality of the lower-SES population with respect to their active behavior. On average, people with a lower-SES population have 6-year lower life expectancy and live 15 years less in good health (Pharos, 2019). Stimulating active behavior in their direct living environment would contribute to improving their health. Therefore, the main research question is: “How can planning for active behavior in the living environment contribute to a more active lifestyle among the Dutch lower-SES population?”
Through observations in the neighborhoods Holtenbroek and Oosterflank, interviews with the lower-SES population, and a focus group among experts on the topic of active mobility, four different mentalities were formulated. The mentalities are distinguished on the level of motivation and ability to be active. This research demonstrates how ‘soft interventions’ in the living environment could contribute to stimulating the desired behavior amongst those mentalities with the least motivation for active behavior. It argues for social initiatives in the living environment, established through citizen participation. This can seduce the lower-SES population to come together or go for a walk more often, from the desire to be part of the neighborhood and join the social initiatives. In turn these soft interventions could result in subconscious lifestyle changes toward more active behavior amongst the lower-SES population.
Living environment, lifestyle, lower-SES population, active behavior, participation
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen