Coastal proximity, health and well-being: results from a longitudinal panel survey.

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Coastal proximity, health and well-being: results from a longitudinal panel survey.

Mathew P. White¹, Ian Alcock¹, Benedict W. Wheeler¹, Michael H. Depledge¹•Institutions (1)

Royal Cornwall Hospital¹

01 Sep 2013-Health & Place (Health Place)-Vol. 23, pp 97-103

TL;DR: English panel data was used to explore the relationship between the proximity to the coast and indicators of generic and mental health for the same individuals over time and individuals reported significantly better general health andmental health when living nearer the coast.

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About: This article is published in Health & Place.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 245 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Panel data.

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Mental Health Benefits of Long-Term Exposure to Residential Green and Blue Spaces: A Systematic Review

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Mireia Gascon¹, Margarita Triguero-Mas, David Martinez, Payam Dadvand, Joan Forns², Antoni Plasència¹, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen - Show less +3 more•Institutions (2)

University of Barcelona¹, Norwegian Institute of Public Health²

22 Apr 2015-International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

TL;DR: It is found limited evidence for a causal relationship between surrounding greenness and mental health in adults, whereas the evidence was inadequate in children, and recommendations are provided in order to provide consistent and evidence-based recommendations for policy makers.

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Abstract: Many studies conducted during the last decade suggest the mental health benefits of green and blue spaces. We aimed to systematically review the available literature on the long-term mental health benefits of residential green and blue spaces by including studies that used standardized tools or objective measures of both the exposures and the outcomes of interest. We followed the PRISMA statement guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analysis. In total 28 studies were included in the systematic review. We found limited evidence for a causal relationship between surrounding greenness and mental health in adults, whereas the evidence was inadequate in children. The evidence was also inadequate for the other exposures evaluated (access to green spaces, quality of green spaces, and blue spaces) in both adults and children. The main limitation was the limited number of studies, together with the heterogeneity regarding exposure assessment. Given the increase in mental health problems and the current rapid urbanization worldwide, results of the present systematic review should be taken into account in future urban planning. However, further research is needed to provide more consistent evidence and more detailed information on the mechanisms and the characteristics of the green and blue spaces that promote better mental health. We provide recommendations for future studies in order to provide consistent and evidence-based recommendations for policy makers.

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705 citations

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...…UK [40] Cross- sectional Adults >16 y 1896 CES-D20 Depression BESSC (audit) Number of trees and amount of houses with private garden in the housing area - White et al. 2013, The UK [20] Longitudinal Adults 12818 GHQ-12 Mental health and well-being Land-cover map % GS at CAU Increasing…...
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...The second study observed that living less than 5 km from the coast improved mental health (measured with the GHQ) compared to living further away, even after adjusting for percentage of green space and fresh water [21]....
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...Only three cross-sectional studies evaluated the mental health benefits of blue spaces [14,21,34]....
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...Additionally, quite a few studies were at risk of obtaining significant results due to multiple testing, although some of them did not even obtain significant associations after multiple analyses [17,20,21,23,24,26,27,30,34,37,40]....
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Longitudinal Effects on Mental Health of Moving to Greener and Less Green Urban Areas

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Ian Alcock¹, Mathew P. White¹, Benedict W. Wheeler¹, Lora E. Fleming¹, Michael H. Depledge¹ - Show less +1 more•Institutions (1)

Royal Cornwall Hospital¹

07 Jan 2014-Environmental Science & Technology

TL;DR: Moving to greener urban areas was associated with sustained mental health improvements, suggesting that environmental policies to increase urban green space may have sustainable public health benefits.

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Abstract: Despite growing evidence of public health benefits from urban green space there has been little longitudinal analysis. This study used panel data to explore three different hypotheses about how moving to greener or less green areas may affect mental health over time. The samples were participants in the British Household Panel Survey with mental health data (General Health Questionnaire scores) for five consecutive years, and who relocated to a different residential area between the second and third years (n = 1064; observations = 5320). Fixed-effects analyses controlled for time-invariant individual level heterogeneity and other area and individual level effects. Compared to premove mental health scores, individuals who moved to greener areas (n = 594) had significantly better mental health in all three postmove years (P = .015; P = .016; P = .008), supporting a "shifting baseline" hypothesis. Individuals who moved to less green areas (n = 470) showed significantly worse mental health in the year preceding the move (P = .031) but returned to baseline in the postmove years. Moving to greener urban areas was associated with sustained mental health improvements, suggesting that environmental policies to increase urban green space may have sustainable public health benefits.

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Natural outdoor environments and mental and physical health: relationships and mechanisms.

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Margarita Triguero-Mas¹, Payam Dadvand¹, Marta Cirach¹, David Martinez¹, Antonia Medina², Anna Mompart, Xavier Basagaña¹, Regina Gražulevičienė, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen¹ - Show less +5 more•Institutions (2)

Pompeu Fabra University¹, Generalitat of Catalonia²

01 Apr 2015-Environment International

TL;DR: Green spaces are associated with better general and mental health across strata of urbanization, socioeconomic status, and genders and Mechanisms other than physical activity or social support may explain these associations.

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430 citations

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...…health (De Vries et al., 2003, 2013; White et al., 2013a; Strum and Cohen, 2014; Sugiyama et al., 2008; Alcock et al., 2014; Chang and Chen, 2005; Reklaitiene et al., 2014; Nutsford et al., 2013; Grahn and Stigsdotter, 2003; Astell-Burt et al., 2014; Van den Berg et al., 2010; White et al., 2013b)....
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...…studies investigated a wide range of mental health indicators (including medication), or the associations in a southern Europe population, very few evaluated different effect modifiers and mediators at the same time, and only one studied green and blue spaces simultaneously (White et al., 2013b)....
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...…beneficial associations between green spaces and selfperceived general health (Maas et al., 2006; De Vries et al., 2013, 2003;Maas et al., 2009;White et al., 2013b) and green spaces andmental health (De Vries et al., 2003, 2013; Maas et al., 2009; White et al., 2013a; Alcock et al., 2014;…...
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...…et al., 2006; Mitchell and Popham, 2007; De Vries et al., 2013, 2003; Wheeler et al., 2012; Maas et al., 2009; Mitchell et al., 2011), well-being (White et al., 2013a), longevity (Mitchell et al., 2011; Mitchell and Popham, 2008), cardiovascular diseases (Pereira et al., 2013; Tamosiunas et al.,…...
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...Although a few studies have suggested that exposure to blue spaces could be associated with health (De Vries et al., 2003; Wheeler et al., 2012; White et al., 2013b), we did not find any consistent association....
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Nearby green space and human health: Evaluating accessibility metrics

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E. Dinand Ekkel, Sjerp de Vries¹•Institutions (1)

Wageningen University and Research Centre¹

01 Jan 2017-Landscape and Urban Planning

TL;DR: This paper reviews the quantitative and qualitative aspects relevant for accessibility metrics and empirical studies addressing these aspects in relation to health and thinks this will lead to a new generation of more evidence-based accessibility metrics that will help to advance the field.

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Defining greenspace: Multiple uses across multiple disciplines

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Lucy Taylor¹, Dieter F. Hochuli¹•Institutions (1)

University of Sydney¹

01 Feb 2017-Landscape and Urban Planning

TL;DR: Greenspace research has been driven by an emerging interest in the impact that biodiversity and ecosystem function has on life in urban areas as mentioned in this paper. But less than half of the 125 journal articles reviewed defined what greenspace was in their study; although many articles implied a definition.

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...In a paper about whether there s a coastal effect on wellbeing in Policy and Health, greenspace is efined as ‘natural’ environments, including parks, woods, gardens nd coastal areas (White et al., 2013)....
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