The Evidence-based Research Of Exterior Health Behavior Space In Elderly Facilities

Regular healthy behavior had several physical and psychological benefits for older adults.In the era of rapid developing of elderly facilities in China,it needs a series of scientific and quantifiable environmental intervention mechanisms so as to better guide the older adult’s outdoor healthy behavior.The researcher focused on the exterior health behavior spaces in elderly facilities,by combining with the theoretical researches of Medical and Public Health,the researcher developed a framework based on the evidenced-based methodology to examined the impact of physical features of exterior spaces on elderly facilities residents’ healthy behavior and how the perceptions of exterior spaces influenced this relationship.On this basis,the researcher retrospectively evaluated the representative healthy behavioral intervention models so as to established a research-based noumenon based on the social ecological model.The researcher composed research-based object based on previous medical research’s definition of high,medium,low fitness indexs for older adults as well as age,self-efficacy,BMI indexs and other individual information.Through GIS spatial measurements,questionnaire survey,the researcher collected the 16 elderly facilities’ data which located at Houston,Brazos County in Texas and established several multivariate logistic regression models.The chi-square test of the-2log likelihood ratios among the alternative models to determine the best-fitting model.From the statistical model results,the research found the series of health behavior promoted characteristics in the nearby neighborhood space,outdoor space and social space.Based on above results,the researcher conducted the comparison of related Sino-US examples.After comprehensive analysis of the construction background differences,the researcher compared detailed cases with series of health behavior promoted characteristics in the nearby neighborhood space,outdoor space and social space in China and the US.Accordingly,the researcher put forward the planning strategies for Chinese elderly facilities’ exterior health behavior space.