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Olta Braçe

Researcher at University of Seville

Publications -  26
Citations -  181

Olta Braçe is an academic researcher from University of Seville. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 21 publications receiving 75 citations. Previous affiliations of Olta Braçe include University of Winchester & Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.

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Exploring the association between urban sprawl and mental health

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Spearman's rho test to determine the possible association between sprawl levels and psychological distress and found that areas with a lower sprawl level show greater risk of mental health problems (GHQ-12), and those living in areas of medium sprawl present better mental health, followed by those in areas with higher sprawllevel.
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Developing an Index to Measure Sub-municipal Level Urban Sprawl

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an index composed of different spatial variables to measure the urban sprawl levels of a municipality located in Southern Spain, using Choquet integral, a technique that combines interactions between those variables providing greater coherence to the complexity that is inherent in the creation of composite sprawl indexes.
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Associations of the natural and built environment with mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19: Irish perspectives from the GreenCOVID study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored wellbeing and mental health associations with factors of the immediate natural and built environment among adults in Ireland during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.