Promoting public playgrounds usage and children's physical activity with sports activities: A quasi-experimental study
This study aimed to evaluate the children's usage and their physical activity levels at playgrounds with (N = 4) and without (N = 4) organized sports activities, following a quasi-experimental study design. Direct observations were used to assess the playground usage and estimate the playground users' age category, sex, and physical activity intensity level. The results indicated that playgrounds with sports activities were associated with 52% more users at the time of the activities. However, this increase was only seen in boys. Furthermore, playgrounds with sport activities were not associated with different physical act...
Source: Health and Place - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: S Bliekendaal J Nauta Source Type: research
Changes in neighbourhood walkability and body mass index: An analysis of residential mobility from a longitudinal multilevel study in Brisbane, Australia
This study examined associations between changes in neighbourhood walkability and body mass index (BMI) among 1041 residents who relocated within Brisbane, Australia between 2007 and 2016 over five waves of the HABITAT study. Measures included spatially-derived neighbourhood walkability (dwelling density, street connectivity, and land use mix) and self-reported height and weight. No associations were found between any neighbourhood walkability characteristics and BMI. Examining these associations over the life course, and the impact of residential relocation in the younger years, remains a priority for future research.PMID...
Source: Health and Place - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jerome N Rachele Suzanne Mavoa Takemi Sugiyama Anne Kavanagh Billie Giles-Corti Wendy J Brown Shigeru Inoue Shiho Amagasa Gavin Turrell Source Type: research
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents
Health Place. 2024 Apr 16;87:103239. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103239. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived communities, and to a greater extent in the most deprived communities that are ...
Source: Health and Place - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Emily T Murray Avril Keating Claire Cameron Rachel Benchekroun Sam Whewall Cara Booker Stephen Jivraj Source Type: research
To use or not to use proprietary street view images in (health and place) research? That is the question
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103244. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer vision-based analysis of street view imagery has transformative impacts on environmental assessments. Interactive web services, particularly Google Street View, play an ever-important role in making imagery data ubiquitous. Despite the technical ease of harnessing millions of Google Street View images, this article questions the current practices in using this proprietary data source from a European viewpoint. Our concern lies with Google's terms of service, which restrict bulk image downloads and the generati...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marco Helbich Matthew Danish S M Labib Britta Ricker Source Type: research
Impacts of social deprivation on mortality and protective effects of greenness exposure in Hong Kong, 1999-2018: A spatiotemporal perspective
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAddressing health inequality is crucial for fostering healthy city development. However, there is a dearth of literature simultaneously investigating the effects of social deprivation and greenness exposure on mortality risks, as well as how greenness exposure may mitigate the adverse effect of social deprivation on mortality risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. Drawing on socioeconomic, remote sensing, and mortality record data, this study presents spatiotemporal patterns of social deprivation, population weighted...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuxuan Zhou Yi Lu Di Wei Shenjing He Source Type: research
To use or not to use proprietary street view images in (health and place) research? That is the question
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103244. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer vision-based analysis of street view imagery has transformative impacts on environmental assessments. Interactive web services, particularly Google Street View, play an ever-important role in making imagery data ubiquitous. Despite the technical ease of harnessing millions of Google Street View images, this article questions the current practices in using this proprietary data source from a European viewpoint. Our concern lies with Google's terms of service, which restrict bulk image downloads and the generati...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marco Helbich Matthew Danish S M Labib Britta Ricker Source Type: research
Impacts of social deprivation on mortality and protective effects of greenness exposure in Hong Kong, 1999-2018: A spatiotemporal perspective
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAddressing health inequality is crucial for fostering healthy city development. However, there is a dearth of literature simultaneously investigating the effects of social deprivation and greenness exposure on mortality risks, as well as how greenness exposure may mitigate the adverse effect of social deprivation on mortality risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. Drawing on socioeconomic, remote sensing, and mortality record data, this study presents spatiotemporal patterns of social deprivation, population weighted...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuxuan Zhou Yi Lu Di Wei Shenjing He Source Type: research
To use or not to use proprietary street view images in (health and place) research? That is the question
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103244. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer vision-based analysis of street view imagery has transformative impacts on environmental assessments. Interactive web services, particularly Google Street View, play an ever-important role in making imagery data ubiquitous. Despite the technical ease of harnessing millions of Google Street View images, this article questions the current practices in using this proprietary data source from a European viewpoint. Our concern lies with Google's terms of service, which restrict bulk image downloads and the generati...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marco Helbich Matthew Danish S M Labib Britta Ricker Source Type: research
Impacts of social deprivation on mortality and protective effects of greenness exposure in Hong Kong, 1999-2018: A spatiotemporal perspective
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAddressing health inequality is crucial for fostering healthy city development. However, there is a dearth of literature simultaneously investigating the effects of social deprivation and greenness exposure on mortality risks, as well as how greenness exposure may mitigate the adverse effect of social deprivation on mortality risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. Drawing on socioeconomic, remote sensing, and mortality record data, this study presents spatiotemporal patterns of social deprivation, population weighted...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuxuan Zhou Yi Lu Di Wei Shenjing He Source Type: research
To use or not to use proprietary street view images in (health and place) research? That is the question
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103244. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer vision-based analysis of street view imagery has transformative impacts on environmental assessments. Interactive web services, particularly Google Street View, play an ever-important role in making imagery data ubiquitous. Despite the technical ease of harnessing millions of Google Street View images, this article questions the current practices in using this proprietary data source from a European viewpoint. Our concern lies with Google's terms of service, which restrict bulk image downloads and the generati...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marco Helbich Matthew Danish S M Labib Britta Ricker Source Type: research
Impacts of social deprivation on mortality and protective effects of greenness exposure in Hong Kong, 1999-2018: A spatiotemporal perspective
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAddressing health inequality is crucial for fostering healthy city development. However, there is a dearth of literature simultaneously investigating the effects of social deprivation and greenness exposure on mortality risks, as well as how greenness exposure may mitigate the adverse effect of social deprivation on mortality risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. Drawing on socioeconomic, remote sensing, and mortality record data, this study presents spatiotemporal patterns of social deprivation, population weighted...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuxuan Zhou Yi Lu Di Wei Shenjing He Source Type: research
To use or not to use proprietary street view images in (health and place) research? That is the question
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103244. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer vision-based analysis of street view imagery has transformative impacts on environmental assessments. Interactive web services, particularly Google Street View, play an ever-important role in making imagery data ubiquitous. Despite the technical ease of harnessing millions of Google Street View images, this article questions the current practices in using this proprietary data source from a European viewpoint. Our concern lies with Google's terms of service, which restrict bulk image downloads and the generati...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marco Helbich Matthew Danish S M Labib Britta Ricker Source Type: research
Impacts of social deprivation on mortality and protective effects of greenness exposure in Hong Kong, 1999-2018: A spatiotemporal perspective
Health Place. 2024 Apr 9;87:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAddressing health inequality is crucial for fostering healthy city development. However, there is a dearth of literature simultaneously investigating the effects of social deprivation and greenness exposure on mortality risks, as well as how greenness exposure may mitigate the adverse effect of social deprivation on mortality risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. Drawing on socioeconomic, remote sensing, and mortality record data, this study presents spatiotemporal patterns of social deprivation, population weighted...
Source: Health and Place - April 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuxuan Zhou Yi Lu Di Wei Shenjing He Source Type: research
Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study
Health Place. 2024 Apr 8;87:103240. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103240. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite growing interest in understanding how food environments shape dietary behaviors, European longitudinal evidence is scarce. We aimed to investigate the associations of 9-year average and change in exposure to local retail food environments with the diet quality of residents in Luxembourg. We used data from 566 adults enrolled in both waves of the nationwide ORISCAV-LUX study (2007-2017). Dietary quality was assessed by the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I). Exposure to "healthy" and "less healthy" food ou...
Source: Health and Place - April 9, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Marion Tharrey Torsten Bohn Olivier Klein Dmitry Bulaev Juliette Van Beek Julie-Anne Nazare Manuel Franco Laurent Malisoux Camille Perchoux Source Type: research
Associations between residential greenness and obesity phenotypes among adults in Southwest China
CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to residential greenness was associated with decreased risks of MHO, MUO, and MUNO, which was mediated by concentrations of PM and PA level, and modified by sex, age, educational level, and urbanicity.PMID:38593578 | DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103236 (Source: Health and Place)
Source: Health and Place - April 9, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Bin Yu Wenge Tang Yunzhe Fan Chunlan Ma Tingting Ye Changwei Cai Yiming Xie Yuanyuan Shi Kangzhuo Baima Tingting Yang Yanjiao Wang Peng Jia Shujuan Yang Source Type: research
