Creating a Healthy Home

Creating a Healthy Home

Home and health are two things that are an integral part in the life of modern society today. That's why housing construction continues to be associated with health requirements. That is for residents of the house protected from various diseases, especially infectious diseases. Health is no longer just a doctor problem, designers / architects who planned to stay home also has a role to improve the quality of health of the household through home design he made.

The role of architects that offer a good home design

To determine the design of houses in the process of development is, of course architect position can not be released. The role of architects who design houses offer a good fit with the ability of home owners, should be equated with the role of prospective residents who have the awareness of health. Both are equal and parallel, because the house that meets the requirements of healthy, also means keeping the environment clean.

To obtain a dwelling (house) is decent, home environment must meet health requirements. If not, this will have an interactive relationship that adverse effects on health. Healthy home so many aspects, among others, there are aspects of sociology, physics, chemistry and biology.

At the present time, construction of houses is based on several considerations. Financial factors into consideration for a mediocre economy. While strong consumer berekonomi build a house by taking into account only the beauty and luxury.

The health criteria based on health needs including

healthy home sizes associated with the size of the house floor. Ideal for one person requires a floor area of 4.5 m2 and for children aged 1-10 years is about 1.5 m2. During this small house filled with a lot of content is family, so it looks crowded. Thus, the growth aspect neglected family. More and more residents in a house, especially the narrow, more and more colonies of bacteria. And this, obviously would result in residents having respiratory disease.

Aspect is also important to note is the ventilation. That is, the floor must be assembled house good ventilation system, in order to get cleaner air quality. The results, good ventilation approach based on health is 10-20 percent of floor area house.

Interior Health House

Airport one of the essential elements to support health. We can not postpone breathe, but if we're thirsty, we can still be put off drinking for a while. And unfortunately in our homes often find sources of pollution, especially cigarette smoke and from the burning stove, paint, asbestos. Everything that contributes to air quality inside the house.

Last physical environment, radiation from televisions, radios, other electronic devices as well as noise. Workers at the company radio and television, according to one study, there were complaints menstrual disorders. It is said that this is the adverse effect of radio radiation. Therefore needs further research, whether even this can be suffered by residents of the house?. Demand for housing is dominant, and community awareness for healthy living at home is increasing. This is certainly not out with the mushrooming of housing-housing development in suburban areas by the developer (the developer).

Even the beauty aspect of culture and luxury has its own meaning, but when viewed from the point of health, healthy home is not being met or not depends on two things mentioned above. Based on the statements of American Public Health Association (1959), one house is seen in accordance with the principles of health if it meets four basic requirements.

- First, be able to satisfy basic physiological needs of residents.
- Second, able to satisfy basic psychological needs of residents.
- Third, to protect residents from possible outbreaks of infectious diseases.
- Fourth, to protect residents against possible accident hazards.
Exterior Home Healthy

In other words, the house is really healthy is a house that can guarantee the preservation of the health of the occupants. The house is luxurious, if the occupants are always getting sick, then this is not a healthy home. Conversely, even though his health is relatively simple, but if residents can be assured, then the house can be regarded as a healthy home.

In the end, the problem is indeed a healthy home can not escape from the residents themselves. By maintaining cleanliness in the home means health lingkunganpun come awake. When home and healthy environment, then formed what is called a healthy home.