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Power, intersectionality and stigma: Informing a gender- and spatially-sensitive public health approach to women and gambling in Great Britain Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Maria Fannin, Sharon Collard, Sara Davies
In Britain more men participate in gambling than women, although the gender gap is narrowing; and online gambling is increasing among women and men. Gambling practices differ between men and women but also between different groups of women, with evidence that younger women are diversifying to gamble in different ways from older women. Complex and powerful spatial, socio-cultural and economic forces
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Are Spanish adolescents who actively commute to and from school more active in other domains? A spatiotemporal investigation Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 P. Campos-Garzón, T. Stewart, X. Palma-Leal, J. Molina-García, M. Herrador-Colmenero, J. Schipperijn, P. Chillón, Y. Barranco-Ruiz
We examined the association between mode of commuting to/from school (i.e., walking, multimodal, and motorized-vehicle) and movement behaviours in several space-time domains (i.e., total day, home, school, transport, and other locations). Walking to and/or from school was associated with higher MVPA in all space-time domains except home, where no associations were found. After subtracting commuting
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A tale of many neighborhoods: Latent profile analysis to derive a national neighborhood typology for the US Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Hiwot Y. Zewdie, Jamaica R. Robinson, Marc A. Adams, Anjum Hajat, Jana A. Hirsch, Brian E. Saelens, Stephen J. Mooney
Neighborhoods are complex and multi-faceted. Analytic strategies used to model neighborhoods should reflect this complexity, with the potential to better understand how neighborhood characteristics together impact health. We used latent profile analysis (LPA) to derive a residential neighborhood typology applicable for census tracts across the US. From tract-level 2015–2019 American Community Survey
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The progressive place paradox: Status-based health inequalities are magnified in more economically progressive Swiss localities Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Katy Morris, Dimitrios Lampropoulos
Low socioeconomic status (measured both objectively and subjectively) is systematically associated with worse health. Amid renewed interest in contextual influences on health inequalities, we ask whether variation in the prevailing ideological climate moderates the size of the health gap between low and high status individuals. Based on the minority stress hypothesis, we expect that living in an economically
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Neighborhood built and food environment in relation to glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes in the moving to health study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Dori E. Rosenberg, Maricela F. Cruz, Stephen J. Mooney, Jennifer F. Bobb, Adam Drewnowski, Anne Vernez Moudon, Andrea J. Cook, Philip M. Hurvitz, Paula Lozano, Jane Anau, Mary Kay Theis, David E. Arterburn
To examine whether built environment and food metrics are associated with glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes. Patients (mean age = 59.4 SD = 13.2, 49.5% female, 16.6% Asian, 9.8% Black, 5.5% Latino/Hispanic, 57.1% White, 20% insulin dependent, mean BMI = 32.7±7.7) had an average of 6 HbA1c measures available. Participants in the 1st tertile of residential density (lowest) had a greater
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The built environment and cancer survivorship: A scoping review Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Naiyu Chen, Carol Mita, Ilkania M. Chowdhury-Paulino, Alaina H. Shreves, Cindy R. Hu, Li Yi, Peter James
There are more than 32 million cancer survivors worldwide. The built environment is one of the contextual factors that may influence cancer survivorship. However, studies investigating the interdisciplinary field of the built environment and cancer survivorship are lacking. To conduct a systematic review of the existing literature regarding the relationship between the built environment and cancer
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Higher air pollution exposure in early life is associated with worse health among older adults: A 72-year follow-up study from Scotland Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gergő Baranyi, Lee Williamson, Zhiqiang Feng, Edward Carnell, Massimo Vieno, Chris Dibben
Air pollution increases the risk of mortality and morbidity. However, limited evidence exists on the very long-term associations between early life air pollution exposure and health, as well as on potential pathways. This study explored the relationship between fine particle (PM) exposure at age 3 and limiting long-term illness (LLTI) at ages 55, 65 and 75 using data from the Scottish Longitudinal
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Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Sarah MacLean, Gabriel Caluzzi, Megan Cook, Robin Room, Sarah Callinan
This paper shows how drinking in one's own home affords different affective experiences to drinking in public settings such as bars, pubs and restaurants. A thematic analysis of interviews with 40 Australians aged 30–65 identified three main variations in alcohol-associated feelings, sensations and urges. Alcohol was used at home to decelerate, but in contrast, people were enlivened when drinking in
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The transmission network and spatial-temporal distributions of COVID-19: A case study in Lanzhou, China Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Liangjie Yang, Xiao Yu, Yongchun Yang, Ya ling Luo, Lingling Zhang
Public emergencies exert substantial adverse effects on the socioeconomic development of cities. Investigating the transmission characteristics of COVID-19 can lead to evidence-based strategies for future pandemic intervention and prevention. Drawing upon primary COVID-19 data collected at both the street level and from individuals with confirmed cases in Lanzhou, China, our study examined the spatial-temporal
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Indigenous lands and health access: The influence of a sense of place on disparities in post-stroke recovery in Taiwan Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Zih-Yong Liao, Susanne Kean, Elaine Haycock-Stuart
Despite many countries having policies and systems for universal healthcare coverage, health disparity persists, with significant variations in disease prevalence and life expectancy between different groups of people. This focused ethnography explored the post-stroke recovery of Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in three geographical areas in Taiwan. Forty-eight observations and 24 interviews
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A systematic review of audit tools for evaluating the quality of green spaces in mental health research Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hyunseo Park, Catherine D. Brown, Amber L. Pearson
Research showing the relationship between exposure to green space and health has yielded conflicting results, possibly due to the oversight of green space quality in quantitative studies. This systematic review, guided by the PRISMA framework (registered under Prospero ID CRD42023279720), focused on audit tools for green space quality in mental health research. From 4028 studies, 13 were reviewed,
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Eviction from rental housing and its links to health: A scoping review Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Patrick D. Smith, Danya E. Keene, Sarah Dilday, Kim M. Blankenship, Allison K. Groves
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Spatial scale effects on associations between built environment and cognitive function: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jingjing Li, Jana A. Hirsch, Yvonne L. Michael, Lilah M. Besser, Amy H. Auchincloss, Timothy M. Hughes, Brisa N. Sánchez
Built environments have the potential to favorably support cognitive function. Despite growing work on this topic, most of the work has ignored variation in the spatial scale of the effect. The issue with spatial scale effects is that the size and shape of the areal unit within which built environment characteristics are measured naturally influence the built environment exposure metric and thus the
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Musculoskeletal health and life-space mobility in older adults: Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gregorio Bevilacqua, Stefania D'Angelo, Leo D. Westbury, Nicholas C. Harvey, Elaine M. Dennison
This study explores the relationship between musculoskeletal conditions of ageing and life-space mobility (LSM) in 1110 community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. LSM is a novel measure which captures ability to mobilise within the home, locally and more widely. Among men, older age, care receipt, not driving a car, lower wellbeing, and reduced physical function were associated
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The privilege of working from home and health disparities during the covid-19 pandemic in major American cities Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Youqin Huang, Yuanfei Li, Rui Li, Kai Zhang
Working from home (WFH) has been adopted as a key mitigation strategy in the COVID-19 pandemic; yet few research has studied its impact on pandemic outcomes. Using multiple sources of data including cellphone data and online survey during the pandemic, this study investigates the effect of WFH on intra-city health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic in American cities. Pandemic data for zip code
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Neighbourhood characteristics and socioeconomic inequalities in child mental health: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from the Growing Up in Ireland study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 I Gusti Ngurah Edi Putra, Amy M. McInerney, Eric Robinson, Sonya S. Deschênes
This study examined the role of neighbourhood characteristics in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in child mental health (the total difficulties score from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) using data from Cohort ’08 of Growing Up in Ireland Waves 3 (age 5; baseline) and 5 (age 9; follow-up). Twenty neighbourhood items were grouped into neighbourhood safety, built environments, cohesion
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Nature visits, but not residential greenness, are associated with reduced income-related inequalities in subjective well-being Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Leonie Fian, Mathew P. White, Arne Arnberger, Thomas Thaler, Anja Heske, Sabine Pahl
Nature exposure can promote human health and well-being. Additionally, there is some, albeit mixed, evidence that this relationship is stronger for socio-economically disadvantaged groups (equigenesis). Using a cross-sectional survey of the Austrian population (N = 2300), we explored the relationships between both residential greenness and recreational nature visits, and affective (WHO-5 Well-Being
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Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Trina Robinson, Gursimran Dhamrait, Kevin Murray, Bryan Boruff, John Duncan, Jasper Schipperijn, Hayley Christian
Outdoor play in the home yard is an important source of physical activity for many preschoolers. This study investigated if home yard size and vegetation are related to preschooler outdoor play time. High-resolution remotely sensed data were used to distinguish between types of vegetation coverage in the home yard. Shrub and tree cover, and yard size, were positively associated with outdoor play. Following
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Spatio–temporal effects of built environment on running activity based on a random forest approach in nanjing, China Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Wanyun Zhou, Zhengyuan Liang, Zhengxi Fan, Zhiming Li
Running activity is closely related to the urban built environment in terms of mental and physical health, and this relationship can change as a result of spatio-temporal changes. Most studies, however, do not account for this and assume a linear relationship exists between the built environment and running activity. This study, therefore, collected running data spanning 2019–2022, studied spatial
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Structural barriers to health care as risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational-age birth among US-born Black and White mothers Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 David S. Curtis, Norman Waitzman, Michael R. Kramer, Julie H. Shakib
We develop county-level measures of structural and institutional barriers to care, and test associations between these barriers and birth outcomes for US-born Black and White mothers using national birth records for 2014–2017. Results indicate elevated odds of greater preterm birth severity for Black mothers in counties with higher uninsurance rates among Black adults, fewer Black physicians per Black
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Social media insights into spatio-temporal emotional responses to COVID-19 crisis Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Siqi Wang, Chao Liang, Yunfan Gao, Yu Ye, Jingyu Qiu, Chuang Tao, Haofen Wang
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The impact of outdoor blue spaces on the health of the elderly: A systematic review Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Lixin Wang, Norazmawati Md Sani
Research on natural health has identified the potential benefit of outdoor blue spaces for human health and wellbeing. However, the existing evidence has relatively limited attention to the elderly. This study aims to review the available evidence on outdoor blue spaces and health outcomes among older individuals and identify knowledge gaps. In accordance with the PRISMA guidelines, specific keywords
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The contribution of objective and perceived crime to neighbourhood socio-inequity in loneliness Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Tara Jamalishahni, Melanie Davern, Karen Villanueva, Gavin Turrell, Sarah Foster
Loneliness tends to be more prevalent in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, yet few studies explore the environmental differences contributing to area-based inequity in loneliness. This study examined how perceived and objective crime contributed to differences in loneliness between advantaged and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The study used cross-sectional data from 3749 individuals aged
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A longitudinal analysis of the impact of the local tobacco retail availability and neighbourhood deprivation on male smoking behaviours in Shanghai, China Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Chunyu Zheng, Zhiqiang Feng, Jamie Pearce
Some evidence from Western high-income countries suggests local tobacco retail availability and neighbourhood deprivation may influence smoking behaviours. However, this assertion has not been considered in China, where 44% of males continue to smoke. Data were analysed from Chinese males (n = 2054) who participated in Waves 3–5 (2009–2015) of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey by
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Vitality and nature in psychiatric spaces: Challenges and prospects for ‘healing architecture’ in the design of inpatient mental health environments Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen, Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey
Historically, nature has been considered central to healing and recovery in institutional mental health settings, with inpatient spaces designed to mirror the restorative forces nature may afford. Within contemporary healthcare architecture, the discourse surrounding nature’s role has once again become prominent, especially in the concept of ‘healing architecture’. While the literature on ‘healing
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Examining the role of the diaspora in addressing the interconnections between human health and environmental change: The case of northern Senegalese communities Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Samuel Lietaer, Djibril Mbaldy Dieng, Lore Van Praag
Diaspora communities are a growing source of external assistance and resources to meet unmet needs and to strengthen existing health systems in their home countries. Although a growing number of articles have been published in this realm, very few have looked at diaspora communities’ role and the place translocal communities give to health (care) in the various remittance dynamics, whilst including
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Parenthood, spatial temporal environmental exposure, and leisure-time physical activity participation: Evidence from a micro-timescale retrospective longitudinal study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Peiling Zhou, Zhen Hu, Yirou Chen, Kun Liu, Yaowu Wang
Parents with dependent children are at a high risk of physical inactivity. While previous studies have mostly focused on how parents' time constraints and changing social network may inhibit leisure time physical activity (LTPA) over the long-term, less is known about the integrated effects of parenting and spatial-temporal environmental exposure on the execution of LTPA during certain episodes of
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The mediating role of neighborhood social cohesion and trust in the relationship between childhood material hardship and adolescent depression Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Jihyun Oh, Margaret M.C. Thomas
Objective The purpose of this study is to examine the association between childhood material hardship and adolescent depression and how the relationship is mediated by neighborhood social cohesion and trust. Previous studies on childhood material hardship and adolescent depression have consistently pointed to the importance of social and environmental contexts in explaining health inequalities among
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The interplay between air pollution, built environment, and physical activity: Perceptions of children and youth in rural and urban India Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Jamin Patel, Tarun Reddy Katapally, Anuradha Khadilkar, Jasmin Bhawra
The role of physical inactivity as a contributor to non-communicable disease risk in children and youth is widely recognized. Air pollution and the built environment can limit participation in physical activity and exacerbate non-communicable disease risk; however, the relationships between perceptions of air pollution, built environment, and health behaviours are not fully understood, particularly
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Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Emily Tupper, Stephanie Morris, Emma R. Lawlor, Carolyn Summerbell, Jenna Panter, Russell Jago, Tessa Pollard
The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to ‘put health into place’ by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this study examined how children and their families experienced school journeys in two contrasting Healthy New Towns in England, one an affluent new town in
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Associations between changes in crime and changes in walking for transport with effect measure modification by gender: A fixed-effects analysis of the multilevel longitudinal HABITAT study (2007–2016) Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Rebecca A. Reid, Sarah Foster, Suzanne Mavoa, Jerome N. Rachele
Walking for transport is a potential solution to increasing physical activity in mid to older aged adults however neighbourhood crime may be a barrier. Using data from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence HealTh and AcTivity (HABITAT) study 2007–2016, this study examined associations between changes in crime (perceived crime and objectively measured crime) and changes in transport walking, and whether
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“We can't expect much”: Childbearing women's ‘horizon of expectations’ of the health system in rural Vietnam Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kimberly Lakin, Dinh Thu Ha, Tolib Mirzoev, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Irene Akua Agyepong, Sumit Kane
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Assessing the healthiness of menus of all out-of-home food outlets and its socioeconomic patterns in Great Britain Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Yuru Huang, Thomas Burgoine, Tom R.P. Bishop, Jean Adams
Food environment research predominantly focuses on the spatial distribution of out-of-home food outlets. However, the healthiness of food choices available within these outlets has been understudied, largely due to resource constraints. In this study, we propose an innovative, low-resource approach to characterise the healthiness of out-of-home food outlets at scale. Menu healthiness scores were calculated
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“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Amy McCarron, Sean Semple, Vivien Swanson, Christine F. Braban, Colin Gillespie, Heather D. Price
Asthma, characterized by airway inflammation, sensitization and constriction, and leading to symptoms including cough and dyspnoea, affects millions of people globally. Air pollution is a known asthma trigger, yet how it is experienced is understudied and how individuals with asthma interact with air quality information and manage exacerbation risks is unclear. This study aimed to explore how people
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Using EMA to explore the role of Black adolescents' experiences in activity spaces in momentary negative emotion and marijuana use Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Jaime M. Booth
Research examining the role of place in Black adolescents’ health behaviors typically examines neighborhoods, with little attention paid to micro geographies such as activity spaces. Understanding experiences in activity spaces may be especially important for Black adolescents living in neighborhoods traditionally characterized as disadvantaged. The SPIN project recruited 75 Black adolescents living
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Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Becky P.Y. Loo, Feiyang Zhang
Not enough studies have examined how specific design features of public open space, such as movable site features, are associated with people's physical activity level or playfulness. To fill this gap, this study uses deep learning-based methods to extract visitors' movement trajectories (n = 18,592) from a time-lapse video of a promenade in Hong Kong. The trajectories are classified into different
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Love thy neighbor? The role of trust in neighbors during the COVID-19 crisis Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Seong Hee Kim
During a pandemic, trust can either promote cooperative behavior, as people pay attention to their actions toward other people's health, or hinder cooperative behavior by decreasing risk perception. By linking South Korea's Community Health Survey data with district-level statistics of the number of confirmed cases, I examine the effect of trust during the pre-pandemic period on district-level infection
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Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Alison Cantley, Jane C. Hurley, Michael Todd, Mindy McEntee, Steven P. Hooker, Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, Barbara Ainsworth, Marc A. Adams
This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between GIS-measured worksite and home neighborhood walkability and several measures of physical activity (PA) in employed adults. Results revealed no significant correlation between worksite walkability and PA outcomes, contradicting the hypothesis of increased PA with improved walkability. However, for women and households without young children
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“It is like post-traumatic stress disorder, but in a positive sense!”: New territories of the self as inner therapeutic landscapes for youth experiencing mental ill-health Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Andrea Barbieri, Eleonora Rossero
The manuscript reports on a study conducted on a youth mental health intervention, proposing a novel framework to look at the therapeutic potential of viticultural landscapes. Drawing on care studies applied to agricultural contexts, the work explores how the attention-based practice of manual grape harvest in a specific natural and social environment can produce a “therapeutic landscape of the mind”
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Urban green and blue spaces and general and mental health among older adults in Washington state: Analysis of BRFSS data between 2011-2019 Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Adithya Vegaraju, Solmaz Amiri
A growing body of evidence highlights the significant effect of built environment features on mental and general health. This study examined the association between distance to and percentage of green and blue space measures and serious psychological distress, general health, and frequent mental distress among older adults living in urban ZIP codes in Washington state. Percentage of green space, particularly
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Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Dengkai Huang, Fang He, Wenjie Liu
The worldwide coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the associated social distancing measures have produced alterations in park visits of individuals, as well as their park-based physical activity (e.g. running exercise). Although studies on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in running activity patterns are becoming an emerging focus, less is known about how these changes
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Minding our futures: Understanding climate-related mental wellbeing using systems science Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Rebecca Patrick, Sue Noy, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Josh Hayward, Steven Allender, Hasini Gunasiri, Nicole Bruges, Tristan Snell, Teresa Capetola
Introduction Climate change impacts mental wellbeing through complex pathways and young people are among the most vulnerable to climate-related anxiety. Minding our Futures used methods from systems science to explore this issue and identify actions to promote mental wellbeing for young Australians (18–24 years). Methods This qualitative study used Group Model Building via three online facilitated
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Greenspace exposure may increase life expectancy of elderly adults, especially for those with low socioeconomic status Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Di Wei, Yi Lu, Xueying Wu, Hung Chak Ho, Wenjie Wu, Jinglu Song, Yuan Wang
With an increasing aging population in many cities worldwide, promoting and maintaining the health of elderly individuals has become a pressing public health issue. Although greenspaces may deliver many health outcomes for the elderly population, existing evidence remains inconsistent, partly due to discrepancies in the measure of greenspace and health outcomes. In addition, few studies examined the
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‘Living needs a landscape’: A qualitative study about the role of enabling landscapes for people with mental health and substance abuse problems Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Øyvind Hope, Ottar Ness, Jan Georg Friesinger, Alain Topor, Tore Dag Bøe
The deinstitutionalization of mental health institutions has enabled service users to live in the community and search for what Duff coins ‘enabling places.’ These places were explored through walking interviews, in which service-users led the way. This analysis revealed features which made places promote liveable lives: places help people explore, places help people stand out, places give people responsibilities
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The impact of travel time to cancer treatment centre on post-diagnosis care and mortality among cancer patients in Scotland Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Melanie Turner, Romi Carriere, Shona Fielding, George Ramsay, Leslie Samuel, Andrew Maclaren, Peter Murchie
Limited data exist on the effect of travelling time on post-diagnosis cancer care and mortality. We analysed the impact of travel time to cancer treatment centre on secondary care contact time and one-year mortality using a data-linkage study in Scotland with 17369 patients. Patients with longer travelling time and island-dwellers had increased incidence rate of secondary care cancer contact time.
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Shaping the healthy subject in gentrified spaces: Two case studies in Barcelona (Spain) Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Valeria Santoro Lamelas, Andrés Di Masso
Several studies have analysed the impact of gentrification on health. However, a more in-depth examination of the constitutive role of health discourses in shaping spaces is required. This article explores the links between the gentrification process and the subjectification of healthy subjects through a critical discourse analysis of 35 walking interviews and a visual semiotic analysis of 140 shopfronts
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Assessing the impact of blue and green spaces on mental health of disabled children: A scoping review Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Koorosh Aghabozorgi, Alexander van der Jagt, Simon Bell, Caroline Brown
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Time trends in associations between neighbourhood and school characteristics and mental health problems among Dutch adolescents Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Mathilde E. Brons, Marco Helbich, Gideon Bolt, Kirsten Visser, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens
We investigated trends in associations between physical and social neighbourhood and school characteristics and adolescent mental health problems between 2005 and 2017. Nationally representative, repeated cross-sectional data collected in the Netherlands among primary (N = 5,871) and secondary school students (N = 20,778) were analysed through cross-classified multilevel models. Hardly any evidence
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Childhood neighborhoods and cause-specific adult mortality in Sweden 1939–2015 Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Finn Hedefalk, Ingrid K. van Dijk, Martin Dribe
The socioeconomic health gradient has widened in recent decades. We study how childhood socioeconomic neighborhood conditions influence gender- and cause-specific adult mortality. Using uniquely detailed geocoded longitudinal microdata for a Swedish town (1939–1967), with a follow-up in national registers (1968–2015), we apply Cox proportional hazards models and estimate individual neighborhoods at
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The ‘health workforce crisis’ and ‘the medical manpower problem’: New term, old problems. Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Clare Herrick
The recent, but overdue, publication of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan marks a welcome investment in the future sustainability of the service. The Plan includes a near doubling of medical and nursing school places, a proposed shortening of medical degrees, growth in ‘new roles’ including associates and apprentices, reduced overseas recruitment of staff and efforts to boost productivity and retention
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Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Gonzalo García-Baquero, Ana Fernández-Somoano, Mónica Guxens, Llucia González, Adonina Tardón, Payam Dadvand, Marisa Estarlich, Montserrat de Castro, Rosemary R.C. McEachan, Jesús Ibarluzea, Nerea Lertxundi
Availability of green and blue spaces in the area of residence has been related to various health outcomes during childhood, including neurodevelopment. Some studies have shown that children living in greener and/or bluer areas score better on cognitive tasks although the evidence is inconsistent. These protective effects are hypothesized to occur in part through reductions in air pollution exposure
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Air pollution perception bias: Mismatch between air pollution exposure and perception of air quality in real-time contexts Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Wanying Song, Mei-Po Kwan
Air pollution perception biases hinder the public's awareness of actual air quality. Past studies that examined the association and mismatch between actual and perceived air quality neglected individuals’ dynamic exposure and their activity, travel, spatial, temporal, and social contexts. Using data collected with real-time air pollutant sensors and ecological momentary assessment (EMA), this study
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The association of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics with cardiovascular health: A quasi-experimental study of refugees to Denmark Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Natasja Koitzsch Jensen, Trine Frøslev, Else Foverskov, Maria Glymour, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Rita Hamad
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with cardiovascular health, although it is unclear which specific aspects of neighborhoods matter most. We leveraged a natural experiment in which refugees to Denmark were quasi-randomly assigned to neighborhoods across the country during 1986–1998, creating variation in exposure to various aspects of neighborhood disadvantage. The cohort was followed
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Using photovoice to generate policy recommendations to improve the alcohol urban environment: A participatory action research project Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 María Sandín Vázquez, Andrea Pastor, Irene Molina de la Fuente, Paloma Conde Espejo, Francisca Sureda Llul
The place where we live, work and play may influence our alcohol drinking behaviours. This study aimed to present local policy recommendations on urban determinants for alcohol consumption prevention in a low-income and a high-income area of Madrid (Spain) using a participatory action research method, with photovoice and nominal group techniques. Participants (n = 26) engaged in a photovoice project
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Socioeconomic distribution of food outlet availability through online food delivery services in seven European countries: A cross-sectional study Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Jody C. Hoenink, Yuru Huang, Matthew Keeble, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Maria GM. Pinho, Thomas Burgoine, Jean Adams
This area-level cross-sectional study examined online food outlet availability through the most popular online food delivery service platforms (OFDS) across seven European countries, and explored how this online food outlet availability was socioeconomically distributed. Data collection of online food outlet availability was automated in England, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain
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Public space as a potential resource during reentry for formerly incarcerated people with serious mental illnesses Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Liat S. Kriegel, Stacey L. Barrenger, Benjamin F. Henwood
Background Formerly incarcerated people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) are overrepresented in the criminal legal system. Professional-brokered “connecting” interventions are the predominant means for supporting community reentry, but they are vulnerable to the paucity of formalized services in areas of concentrated disadvantage. Public spaces offer unique opportunities for developing naturally
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Making the case for lead safe housing: Downstream effects of lead exposure on outcomes for children and youth Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Claudia Coulton, Francisca García-Cobián Richter, Youngmin Cho, Jiho Park, Jeesoo Jeon, Robert L. Fischer
Lead based paint is a predominate source of lead exposure in children, which has a documented negative effect on their health and development. Despite public health efforts, the housing stock in disinvested neighborhoods in many cities continues to present significant risk of childhood lead exposure. In this article, we describe how a multi-agency integrated data system was used to document the impact
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Identifying spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 transmission clusters and their built-environment features at the neighbourhood scale Health Place (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Lan Wang, Zhanzhan Hu, Kaichen Zhou, Mei-Po Kwan
The identification of high-risk areas for infectious disease transmission and its built-environment features are crucial for targeted surveillance and early prevention efforts. While previous research has explored the association between infectious disease incidence and urban built environment, the investigation of spatial heterogeneity of built-environment features in high-risk areas has been insufficient