Abstract
Preventive medicine emphasizes maintaining well lifestyle is an appropriate way to promote health, and World Health Organization also proposes a framework for the development of Health Promoting Universities (HPU). The present study conceptualizing university campus planning in the perspective of urban design by proposing a well-designed campus planning as a campus which with higher street network connectivity, mixed land use, urban texture, compact campus density, and a higher degree of greenness. Studies also show the use of open space is the potential mechanism that influences the health status of space planning. This study seeks to identify relationships among the factors of university's campus planning and the use of open space and health status for using regression models, and the analysis is based on an online survey with respondents sampled of 32 universities in Taiwan. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated negative associations between campus' building rate and the use of open space, also shows that the use of open space is a powerful and significant predictor of health promoting lifestyle. However, while predicting health status, there were not found statistically significant differences in the planning factors domain. The use of green space has mediated the relationships between planning factors of university campuses and students’ health-promoting lifestyles. These results could help to inform policy aimed at designing and planning university campuses.
