Influence of residential performance on residents' health status: Nationwide survey of environmental performance of detached houses and residents' health status

Kawakubo, Shun; Ikaga, Toshiharu; Murakami, Shuzo; Hoshi, Tanji; Ando, Shintaro

doi:10.1002/2475-8876.10017

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“…CASBEE has evaluation tools for buildings and urban development, depending on the scale of the object to be evaluated, and these are collectively called the CASBEE family. The CASBEE Health Checklist [ 54 ] is a tool developed with reference to the performance evaluation system for houses that has been developed in advance outside Japan [ 55 , 56 ], and it enables non-professional residents to self-check their residential environment performance as to health and comfort. Past studies have shown that residents with higher scores have a higher subjective health condition and lower disease prevalence [ 54 , 57 ].…”

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“…The CASBEE Health Checklist [ 54 ] is a tool developed with reference to the performance evaluation system for houses that has been developed in advance outside Japan [ 55 , 56 ], and it enables non-professional residents to self-check their residential environment performance as to health and comfort. Past studies have shown that residents with higher scores have a higher subjective health condition and lower disease prevalence [ 54 , 57 ]. The CASBEE Health Checklist has 44 questions, each of which scores 0–3 with a perfect score of 132.…”

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Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

Kawakubo

Arata

2022

Building and Environment

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Working from home has drawn more attention with the development of information and communications technology and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Although studies on working from home have been conducted in various academic fields, few have focused on residential environment and personality traits. In the present study, air temperature and humidity of the home workplace were measured and a questionnaire survey was conducted to understand the relationship between residential environment and personality traits and at-home work productivity. The results suggest that comprehensive productivity while working from home improved. However, when examining individual aspects of productivity, the productivity of information processing improved while that of knowledge processing and knowledge creation deteriorated. The results also suggest the importance of improving the residential environment when working from home because productivity while working from home rather than from the office improved with high evaluation of the residential environment. Moreover, productivity decreased for workers with high neuroticism and increased for those with high openness or perseverance and passion, suggesting that some personality traits are more or less suitable for working from home. To improve the productivity of all workers, these findings have practical implications for promoting appropriate maintenance of the residential environment and introducing flexible work styles that account for personality traits.

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Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

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Arata

2022

Building and Environment

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“…However, in the opposite direction, the pass coefficient from "2011 Stress and fatigue" to "2013 Satisfaction with living environment" was non-significant. 5.4 Synchronous effects model of "Satisfaction with living environment" and "Stress and fatigue" Figure 8 shows the simultaneous effect model of "Satisfaction with living environment" and "Stress and fatigue." Goodnessof-fit (CFI, IFI were 0.953; RMSEA was 0.050) was demonstrated.…”

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“…The objective is to obtain a plan for environmental improvement by analyzing the relationship between each factor of health and the CASBEE Health Checklist 6 scores, which is a specific factor of the environment. Regarding housing, Kawakubo suggested a relationship between the environmental performance of detached houses nationwide and the prevalence of various diseases through a cross‐sectional survey . Takayanagi et al.…”

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“… In the structural model of back pain owing to the cross‐sectional survey in 2011, we included “Subjective health impression” factor although that factor loading was somewhat small (Figure ) . However, since the factor loading was small in both 2011 and 2013, it was excluded from the observation variables constituting latent variables of “Stress and fatigue” in this analysis. …”

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Longitudinal study of housing for the promotion of health and well‐being using a covariance structure model to identify the causal relationships between satisfaction with living environment, stress, and chronic low back pain

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Yamaguchi

Kato

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Japan Architectural Review

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the causal relationship between certain factors through longitudinal research on health and living environment. Based on a questionnaire survey administered online to 5000 Japanese women in February 2011, and a follow‐up survey of 3053 subjects undertaken in February 2013, an analysis was performed on 1575 people with a history of low back pain. First, causal relationships between 2 factors, “Chronic low back pain” and “Stress and fatigue,” were analyzed using cross‐lagged effects modeling and synchronous effects modeling. Similarly, causal relationships between 2 factors, “Stress and fatigue” and “Satisfaction with living environment,” were analyzed using the 2 models. It was revealed that “Satisfaction with living environment” affects “Stress and fatigue,” and “Stress and fatigue” affects “Chronic low back pain.” Covariance structure modeling was used to show that “Satisfaction with living environment” indirectly affects “Chronic low back pain” through “Stress and fatigue” using longitudinal data. Accordingly, it was shown that improving the satisfaction with living environment can improve health in terms of stress, fatigue, and chronic low back pain. Moreover, it was suggested that CASBEE Health Checklist 6 score (group with good housing environment) and health variables were related.

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Influence of residential performance on residents' health status (part II): Nationwide survey of environmental performance of apartment buildings and residents' health status

Kawakubo

Kamata

Murakami³

et al. 2022

Japan Architectural Review

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The residential environment clearly affects health. For example, a previous study has established relationships between specific environmental factors and the health status of residents in detached houses. However, studies focused on apartment buildings are still insufficient. Therefore, in this study, a large nationwide questionnaire survey of residents of apartments was conducted. The residential environment was subjectively evaluated using a Japanese Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) tool: the CASBEE Health Checklist. The results showed that residents living in apartments who score higher on the checklist tend to have a lower prevalence of various diseases, indicating that residential environment may be an important determinant of health. Furthermore, the odds ratios for residents living in apartment buildings were lower for diabetes mellitus, hypertensive diseases, heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and inflammatory polyarthropathies compared with residents living in detached houses. These findings support the general link between the residential environment and residents' health and suggest that housing typology is an important factor.

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Influence of residential performance on residents' health status: Nationwide survey of environmental performance of detached houses and residents' health status

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Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

Longitudinal study of housing for the promotion of health and well‐being using a covariance structure model to identify the causal relationships between satisfaction with living environment, stress, and chronic low back pain

Influence of residential performance on residents' health status (part II): Nationwide survey of environmental performance of apartment buildings and residents' health status

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