Showing papers in "Health & Place in 2015"

TL;DR: Key conceptual and methodological issues that may contribute to inconsistencies in research examining relations between public open space and physical activity are identified.

TL;DR: Investigating how green and blue spaces affect older adult health and wellbeing in Metro Vancouver, Canada indicates that nature plays a nuanced and influential role in the everyday lives of older adults.

TL;DR: A considerable research agenda - theoretical, methodological and applied - for future work within different forms of blue space is suggested as having public health policy relevance in social and public space.

TL;DR: Evidence that the presence of child relevant neighborhood destinations and services were positively associated with early child development domains of physical health and wellbeing and social competence and parents perceptions of neighborhood safety were positive associated with children's social-emotional development and general health is examined.

TL;DR: Although the effects of water in cities, "urban blue" (as compared to "urban green"), on human health and well-being are found, some health-enhancing effects for users turned out to be prominent for urban blue in the four conceptual therapeutic landscape dimensions: experienced, symbolic, social and activity space.

TL;DR: A commuter-based version of the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which has gained acceptance in studies on spatial health care accessibility, is put forward and significant spatial differences in accessibility are shown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the density of takeaway food outlets and presence of supermarkets in Norfolk, UK between 1990 and 2008, and found that takeaway food outlet density increased overall, and was significantly higher in more deprived areas at all time points.

TL;DR: Investigation of relations of walking, bicycling and vehicle time to neighborhood walkability and total physical activity in youth suggests potential for increasing walking in youth through improving neighborhoodWalkability.

TL;DR: Qualitative issues that shaped the design and analysis features of the NEHW study are described to ensure that, while a cross-sectional sample, it will advance the quality of evidence emerging from observational studies.

TL;DR: An online application, the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (CANVAS), that uses Google Street View to conduct virtual audits of neighborhood environments and finds that many items are reliably measured across auditors using CANVAS and that agreement between auditors appears to be uncorrelated with neighborhood demographic characteristics.

TL;DR: With age, children walked further to school; the threshold distance that best discriminated walkers from passive commuters was 1421 m in 10- year-olds, 1627 m in 11-year-olds and 3046 m in 14-year,olds.

TL;DR: Swimming emerges from the study as a potentially valuable health and wellbeing resource that can be more fully harnessed to inform wider public health policy.

TL;DR: The traditional culture-based North/South pattern of suicidal behaviour has faded away, while the socioeconomic urban/rural divide has become more pronounced, and suicide is associated with higher levels of rurality and material deprivation.

TL;DR: Examination of how bluespaces inform experiences of place, being aged, and wellbeing among seniors on Waiheke, an island within the greater Auckland area in northern New Zealand, concludes that drawing on the qualities of bluespaces helps maintain a secure sense of self anchored in strong affective ties to place.

TL;DR: A negative association between walkability and type 2 diabetes was found that no longer remained statistically significant after adjusting for individual socio-demographic factors, but the potential effect of a broader array of the neighborhood built environment on health outcomes related to physical activity was explored.

TL;DR: Examination of the embodied, every day practices of immigrant children and families in the context of urban greenspaces suggests that activities in the natural environment serve as a protective factor in the health and well-being of this population.

TL;DR: Examining built environment attributes in relation to proportion of out-of-school time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and active travel in a group of ethnically and socio-economically diverse children in Auckland, New Zealand found local destinations along a safe street network may be important for encouraging children's activity behaviours.

TL;DR: Analysis of data subsets divided by areas of different urbanicity levels and by gender reveals the variability of effects of independent variables, more so for the neighborhood variables than individual variables, implying that some obesity risk factors are geographically specific and vary between men and women.

TL;DR: Data from the Women's Health Initiative were used to quantify the relationship between the loss of trees to an invasive forest pest-the emerald ash borer-and cardiovascular disease and a semi-parametric Cox proportional hazards model of time to cardiovascular disease was estimated.

TL;DR: An alternative perspective focuses on "the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources" described by the WHO Commission, and the ways in which policies that address those inequities can avoid unintentional incorporation of neoliberal constructions of risk and responsibility.

TL;DR: Results suggest that transit use directly generates new PA that is not shifted from other PA, which supports the public health benefits from new high quality public transit such as LRT.

TL;DR: In cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, negative neighborhood perceptions were associated with poorer well-being on all three measures and remained significant after adjusting for a range of sociodemographic and health status variables and depressive symptoms.

TL;DR: With approximately 4.1 million US adolescents visiting convenience stores at least weekly, new policies and other interventions are needed to promote a healthier retail environment for youth.

TL;DR: Results suggest that using MLM, instead of CCMM, could lead to overestimating the importance of certain contexts and could ultimately lead to targeting interventions or policies to the wrong settings.

TL;DR: Neighbors' perceptions of neighborhood characteristics were examined in relation to accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among 678 children in two US regions, but results were inconsistent across regions.

TL;DR: A rapid appraisal in eight areas of England and Wales using ethnographic data, a household survey and documentary sources found that more private concerns tapped into deep-seated anxieties about darkness, modernity ‘going backwards’, and local governance.

TL;DR: Findings reveal that access to water, perceptions and practices were shaped by ecological and broader structural factors, and collective actions to improve access were constrained by institutional and economic structures, thus reinforcing inequalities.

TL;DR: The results indicate lack of consistency or uniformity in the operationalization of bridging social capital in public health settings and identify some promising approaches to measurement that should be further investigated in future studies.

TL;DR: This paper utilizes the 'enabling places' frameworks to identify the place-bound properties that make a difference in the recovery journeys of clients and develops a description of MAPs as enabling places that afford the elemental resources for personal recovery.

TL;DR: This study focuses on the clients in a psychiatric clinic in Switzerland and how they experience place through a psychotherapeutic painting and autobiographical narration process, based on the space and place discourse of Relph (1976).