Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity
Health Place. 2023 Dec 9;85:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103149. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNot 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 groups based on a set of movement indicators. Multinomial logistic regression is used to examine the relationship between ...
Source: Health and Place - December 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Becky P Y Loo Feiyang Zhang Source Type: research
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity
Health Place. 2023 Dec 9;85:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103149. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNot 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 groups based on a set of movement indicators. Multinomial logistic regression is used to examine the relationship between ...
Source: Health and Place - December 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Becky P Y Loo Feiyang Zhang Source Type: research
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity
Health Place. 2023 Dec 9;85:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103149. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNot 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 groups based on a set of movement indicators. Multinomial logistic regression is used to examine the relationship between ...
Source: Health and Place - December 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Becky P Y Loo Feiyang Zhang Source Type: research
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity
Health Place. 2023 Dec 9;85:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103149. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNot 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 groups based on a set of movement indicators. Multinomial logistic regression is used to examine the relationship between ...
Source: Health and Place - December 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Becky P Y Loo Feiyang Zhang Source Type: research
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity
Health Place. 2023 Dec 9;85:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103149. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNot 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 groups based on a set of movement indicators. Multinomial logistic regression is used to examine the relationship between ...
Source: Health and Place - December 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Becky P Y Loo Feiyang Zhang Source Type: research
Using EMA to explore the role of Black adolescents' experiences in activity spaces in momentary negative emotion and marijuana use
Health Place. 2023 Dec 8;85:103158. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103158. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResearch 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 in a single neighborhood to complete ecological momentary assessments (EMA) about the activity spaces they encountered ov...
Source: Health and Place - December 9, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jaime M Booth Source Type: research
"I have to stay inside …": Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma
This study aimed to explore how people living with asthma in Scotland, UK, experienced and managed their asthma in relation to air pollution. We explored these issues with 36 participants using semi-structured interviews. We found that self-protection measures were influenced by place and sense of control (with the home being a "safe space"), and that the perception of clean(er) air had a liberating effect on outdoor activities. We discuss how these insights could shape air quality-related health advice in future.PMID:38064920 | DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103150 (Source: Health and Place)
Source: Health and Place - December 8, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy McCarron Sean Semple Vivien Swanson Christine F Braban Colin Gillespie Heather D Price Source Type: research
Love thy neighbor? The role of trust in neighbors during the COVID-19 crisis
Health Place. 2023 Dec 7;85:103164. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103164. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDuring 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 rates. I find that trust in neighbors is negatively associated with infection rates during the period when people are...
Source: Health and Place - December 8, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Seong Hee Kim Source Type: research
"I have to stay inside …": Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma
This study aimed to explore how people living with asthma in Scotland, UK, experienced and managed their asthma in relation to air pollution. We explored these issues with 36 participants using semi-structured interviews. We found that self-protection measures were influenced by place and sense of control (with the home being a "safe space"), and that the perception of clean(er) air had a liberating effect on outdoor activities. We discuss how these insights could shape air quality-related health advice in future.PMID:38064920 | DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103150 (Source: Health and Place)
Source: Health and Place - December 8, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy McCarron Sean Semple Vivien Swanson Christine F Braban Colin Gillespie Heather D Price Source Type: research
Love thy neighbor? The role of trust in neighbors during the COVID-19 crisis
Health Place. 2023 Dec 7;85:103164. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103164. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDuring 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 rates. I find that trust in neighbors is negatively associated with infection rates during the period when people are...
Source: Health and Place - December 8, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Seong Hee Kim Source Type: research
Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults
Health Place. 2023 Dec 5;85:103143. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103143. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis 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, a positive association was observed between worksite walkability and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). ...
Source: Health and Place - December 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Alison Cantley Jane C Hurley Michael Todd Mindy McEntee Steven P Hooker Punam Ohri-Vachaspati Barbara Ainsworth Marc A Adams Source Type: research
Assessing the healthiness of menus of all out-of-home food outlets and its socioeconomic patterns in Great Britain
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 for food outlets on JustEat, and a deep learning model was trained to predict these scores for all physical out-of-home outlets in Great Britain, based on outlet names. Our findings highlight the "double burden" of the unhealthy food environment in deprived areas where there tend to be more out-of-home food outlets, and these outlets tend to be less healthy. This methodological advancement provides a nuanced understanding of out-of-home food environment...
Source: Health and Place - December 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuru Huang Thomas Burgoine Tom R P Bishop Jean Adams Source Type: research
Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults
Health Place. 2023 Dec 5;85:103143. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103143. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis 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, a positive association was observed between worksite walkability and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). ...
Source: Health and Place - December 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Alison Cantley Jane C Hurley Michael Todd Mindy McEntee Steven P Hooker Punam Ohri-Vachaspati Barbara Ainsworth Marc A Adams Source Type: research
Assessing the healthiness of menus of all out-of-home food outlets and its socioeconomic patterns in Great Britain
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 for food outlets on JustEat, and a deep learning model was trained to predict these scores for all physical out-of-home outlets in Great Britain, based on outlet names. Our findings highlight the "double burden" of the unhealthy food environment in deprived areas where there tend to be more out-of-home food outlets, and these outlets tend to be less healthy. This methodological advancement provides a nuanced understanding of out-of-home food environment...
Source: Health and Place - December 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuru Huang Thomas Burgoine Tom R P Bishop Jean Adams Source Type: research
"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. 2023 Dec 3;85:103157. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103157. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe 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". Through ethnographic research, we investigate how the spatial and social context of the viticultural environment influe...
Source: Health and Place - December 4, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Andrea Barbieri Eleonora Rossero Source Type: research
