Showing papers in "Health & Place in 2014"

TL;DR: There is evidence for inequalities in food access in the US but trends are less apparent in other developed countries, and trends for price show that higher prices of healthy foods are associated with better dietary outcomes.

TL;DR: Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, it is described how the natural areas enabled students to escape stress, focus, build competence, and form supportive social groups.

TL;DR: Developing urban and suburban areas in a more compact manner may have some salutary effect on obesity and chronic disease trends.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated whether place-based characteristics (socioeconomic/demographic and health factors, as well as the built and biophysical environment) may be associated with greater risk of heat-related mortality for seniors during heat events in Manhattan.

TL;DR: Linear regression results indicated that the scale and shape of buffers influenced study results and may partly explain the inconsistent findings in the built environment and energy balance literature.

TL;DR: A political ecology approach was deployed specifically to identify the multi-scalar political, economic, and environmental factors influencing toilet adoption in rural India and develops a theory and framework for successful sanitation.

TL;DR: Investigations into the impact of parents' fear of strangers on children's independent mobility and whether informal social control mitigated any association found that initiatives that target parental fears combined with interventions that normalise children's walking may help increase independent mobility.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that similar environmental attributes are associated with recreational walking internationally, while curvilinear associations were found for residential density, land use mix, and aesthetics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the impact of neighborhood walkability on young adults, early-middle adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults' walking across different neighborhood buffers.

TL;DR: This essay examines the assumptions of green space use underpinning much existing green space and health research and considers opportunities to move the field forward through exploring two often overlooked aspects of individual agency: the influence of shifting life circumstances on personal wellbeing priorities and place practices and the role of personal orientations to nature.

TL;DR: It was revealed that the risk of developing pre-diabetes/diabetes was lower for participants in areas with larger POS and greater walkability, and incident abdominal obesity was positively associated with the unhealthful food environment index.

TL;DR: The idea that the food desert concept, and food accessibility research more generally, should be expanded to include a temporal component is put forward, and potential avenues for future research are noted.

TL;DR: Surrounding greenness at the birth address was positively associated with birth weight in two German birth cohorts in Munich and the mechanisms driving this association remain unclear and warrant further investigation.

TL;DR: The concept of therapeutic place experiences is developed by considering the role of activity and the notion of emplaced flow is proposed to locate individual experiences amongst socio-spatial factors which limit self-determinacy and therefore affect wellbeing.

TL;DR: A positive association between the density of unhealthy food outlets in a neighbourhood and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children is observed and an association in the opposite direction was observed for other types of food outlets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used designated market area (DMA) spot television ratings to assess geographic differences in child/adolescent exposure to food-related advertisements based on DMA-level racial/ethnic and income characteristics.

TL;DR: Free geospatial services appear as promising alternatives to field audit for assessment of objective dimensions of the built environment, particularly for items related to objectively verifiable measures.

TL;DR: Results showed that only trust was beneficial for SRH in China, and the individual-level bridging trust was only positively associated with SRH of urban residents, which mirrored the urban-rural dual structure in China.

TL;DR: The narrowing gap between urban and rural areas may be attributed to the deplorable living conditions in urban slums, hence the gap in urban–rural differentials narrowed over time.

TL;DR: This analysis highlights both the multiple relationships between socioeconomic factors and tuberculosis in Brazil, and the importance of accounting for spatial factors in analysing socioeconomic determinants of tuberculosis.

TL;DR: Results of a community-based (CBR) study that qualitatively examined the perceived health impacts of environmental dispossession among Elders in two Anishinaabe communities in Ontario, Canada show the importance of engaging theoretically in concepts ofEnvironmental dispossession and resilience.

TL;DR: Data from a qualitative study conducted with people with mental health problems is used to outline the role of the public library as a therapeutic landscape, and reflects on the impact of proposed library closures in light of these previously hidden benefits.

TL;DR: The concept of environmental repossession as a way forward for studies on the Indigenous environment-health interface is offered by this community-based research.

TL;DR: The results show that women in Ghana and Uganda, who live in areas where gender norms are relatively tolerant of violence against women, are less likely to use skilled birth attendants and timely antenatal care.

TL;DR: Results revealed that social capital operated at the community level in association with all three care-seeking behaviors; however, the results differed based on the type of health care utilized.

TL;DR: Analysis of differing spatial measures of exposure to supermarkets and farmers' markets among women of reproductive age in eastern North Carolina showed that time-space approaches capturing activity space may be more relevant, particularly if integrated with mixed methods strategies.

TL;DR: Findings support a gender-dependent role of neighborhood in stress process models of health among older healthy adults and suggest mediation between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and cortisol reactivity was suggested among women.

TL;DR: This study aims at getting insight into the number of trips walked and cycled within various buffer sizes using GPS measures, finding that elderly aged under 75 years and those with functional limitations walked andcycled shorter distances than those over 75 year and those without functional limitations.

TL;DR: Four consequences of accessibility problems emerged across settings which could be used for valid comparisons of access: having to restart the care-seeking process, abandoning it, using emergency services for primary care, and health deterioration due to delay.

TL;DR: It is found that neighborhood social environment (but not neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage) was associated with telomere length, and respondents who lived in neighborhoods characterized by lower aesthetic quality, safety, and social cohesion had shorter telomeres than those who live in neighborhoods with a more salutary social environment.