Typology of person-environment fit constellations: a platform addressing accessibility problems in the built environment for people with functional limitations.

Summary, in English

Making the built environment accessible for all regardless of functional capacity is an important goal for public health efforts. Considerable impediments to achieving this goal suggest the need for valid measurements of acccessibility and for greater attention to the complexity of person-environment fit issues. To address these needs, this study aimed to provide a methodological platform, useful for further research and instrument development within accessibility research. This was accomplished by the construction of a typology of problematic person-environment fit constellations, utilizing an existing methodology developed to assess and analyze accessibility problems in the built environment.

• Författare: Björn Slaug; Oliver Schilling; Susanne Iwarsson; Gunilla Carlsson
• Avdelning/ar: Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande; MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
• Publiceringsår: 2015
• Språk: Engelska
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: BMC Public Health
• Volym: 15
• Länkar: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26329717?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2185-4
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: BioMed Central (BMC)
• Ämne: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Projekt: Home, Health and Disability along the Process of Ageing
• Forskningsgrupp: Active and Healthy Ageing Research Group
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1471-2458