Playgrounds: Safe designs and infrastructures for our children… an urgent matter in Costa Rica
Playground diseños e infraestructuras seguras para nuestros niños y niñas…una urgencia en Costa Rica
| dc.creator | Morera Castro, María | |
| dc.date | 2011-06-10 | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/mhsalud/article/view/336 | |
| dc.description | The purpose of this article is to offer the design and infrastructure parameters necessary to have safe playgrounds since they represent a unique opportunity to foster an integral development, particularly in children. In these public places, children learn to resolve conflicts to continue playing, having fun, and developing. These recreational areas then become learning places that foster the formation process and provide great social, emotional, physical, cognitive, intellectual, and spiritual benefits. However, such benefits are diminished by the lack of interest of the communities and the adult population to optimize playground conditions and by unscrupulous developers, who design playgrounds in inappropriate places putting the population at risk. Therefore, the following must be taken seriously into consideration before, during, and after the construction of a playground: design, construction, materials, equipment, components and the procedures to meet the necessary safety requirements and the objective for which they were created, that being an area designed, equipped, and located exclusively for playing that facilitates the integral development of the population. Consequently, it is urgent for Costa Rica to enact clear regulations that guarantee the construction, design, and use of playgrounds that do not put the population’s health at risk, prevent accidents, and guarantee the inalienable rights of each Costa Rican. | |
| dc.description | Se propone en este artículo una serie de aspectos que se deben tomar en cuenta para el diseño e infraestructura de los campos de juego o playgrounds. Además del equipamiento y componentes necesarios que faciliten la conformación de normativas de seguridad, que van a establecer un espacio seguro capaz de cumplir el objetivo de su creación, deben ser un medio que facilite la formación integral de la población, sin poner en riesgo su salud, previniendo cualquier tipo de accidente y garantizando sus derechos inalienables como costarricenses. Es urgente, por tanto, que en Costa Rica se establezcan legislaciones claras que garanticen el cumplimiento en cuanto a la construcción, diseño y utilización de los playgrounds. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica | |
| dc.relation | http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/mhsalud/article/view/336/283 | |
| dc.rights | MHSalud: Revista en Ciencias del Movimiento Humano y Salud por Universidad Nacional se encuentra bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Costa Rica.Basada en una obra en www.revistas.una.ac.cr | |
| dc.rights | MHSalud: Journal in Human Movement Sciences and Health by the National University is found under a Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Costa Rica license. Based on a work in www.revistas.una.ac.cr | |
| dc.source | MHSALUD: Revista en Ciencias del Movimiento Humano y Salud; Vol 4, No 1 (2007): Movimiento Humano y Salud | |
| dc.source | MHSALUD: Journal of Human Movement Sciences and Health; Vol 4, No 1 (2007): Movimiento Humano y Salud | |
| dc.subject | PLAYGROUNDS, REGULATIONS, DESIGN, INFRASTRUCTURES, SAFETY | |
| dc.subject | CAMPOS DE JUEGO (PLAYGROUNDS), NORMATIVAS, DISEÑO, INFRAESTRUCTURA, SEGURIDAD | |
| dc.title | Playgrounds: Safe designs and infrastructures for our children… an urgent matter in Costa Rica | |
| dc.title | Playground diseños e infraestructuras seguras para nuestros niños y niñas…una urgencia en Costa Rica | |
| dc.type | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 |
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