Creating Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy People: Initiating a Research Agenda on the Built Environment and Public Health

Srinivasan, Shobha; OʼFallon, Liam; Dearry, Allen

doi:10.2105/ajph.93.9.1446

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“…The findings have facilitated our understanding on the socioeconomic characteristics and built environment correlates to car ownership and provided important policy implications for interventions (Ding et al, 2017b). To be specific, the built environment is defined as "the humanmade space in which people live, work, and recreate on a day-to-day basis" (Roof and Oleru, 2008) and "encompasses places and spaces created or modified by people including buildings, parks, and transportation systems" (Srinivasan et al, 2003).…”

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The Socioeconomic Characteristics, Urban Built Environment and Household Car Ownership in a Rapidly Growing City: Evidence from Zhongshan, China

Zhang

Liu³

et al. 2018

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Growth in car ownership has significant impacts on the use of urban space and management of urban environments, especially in rapidly developing countries such as China. However, among voluminous literature, few studies have investigated the correlates of household car ownership in the Chinese context, leading to the lack of effective measures to tackle rapid motorization. This study explored the impacts of household-level socioeconomic characteristics and neighborhood-level built environment on household car ownership, with data collected from 25,325 households in Zhongshan, China. The Zero-inflated Poission regression models detect that, all else being equal, living in a neighborhood with a compact and mixed urban form, better bus service and adjacency to CBD is associated with fewer household cars and higher probability to own zero cars. The models also suggest that household size and income, number of employed or students, and availability of competitive vehicles are significantly related to the number of cars in a household. The findings facilitate our understanding of the effects of socioeconomic characteristics and built environment on household car ownership and provide insights into an effective design of measures to slow down the rapid motorization in China.

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The Socioeconomic Characteristics, Urban Built Environment and Household Car Ownership in a Rapidly Growing City: Evidence from Zhongshan, China

Zhang

Liu³

et al. 2018

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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“…In health research, increasing attention is being paid to the built environment (Jackson, 2003;Northridge et al, 2003;Srinivasan et al, 2003;Thomson et al, 2009). Of particular relevance is its role in addressing the challenges of an ageing society (Burton et al, 2011), a worldwide phenomenon.…”

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Bed of roses? The role of garden space in older people's well-being

Burton¹,

Mitchell²,

Stride³

2015

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Desig

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of outdoor housing environment (OHE), including front and back gardens, yards, courtyards, patios and balconies, in older people's well-being. Descriptions of their OHEs were collected from 2558 individuals living in 526 distinct housing developments using a postal questionnaire. A large range of background variables were measured, mainly through the questionnaire. Characteristics of respondents' immediate neighbourhood environments were measured from digital maps and satellite/bird's-eye images. Among the OHE variables, statistically significant predictors of well-being were having one's own patio (as opposed to shared or none), and having a green view from one's living area (a positive effect on well-being). The authors conclude that it would be beneficial for older people's housing to include private patio space, where possible, as well as a large amount of greenery. The research supports the claim that older people benefit from green space as much by viewing it from inside as spending time in it. If older people have no or very little garden space, a green street environment is likely to increase their well-being, especially if it can be seen from their home.

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“…Health is related to how the built environment is perceived as walkable. 6,45 There are other pathways through which health and the built environment could be correlated, 13,41 such as availability of healthful foods, 44 air quality, 22,23 quality of housing stock, 36,47 and so on. However, these pathways, not being relevant to destination walking, are set aside for this present research.…”

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Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

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This study investigates the relationships between the built environment, the physical attributes of the neighborhood, and the residents' perceptions of those attributes. It focuses on destination walking and self-reported health, and does so at the neighborhood scale. The built environment, in particular sidewalks, road connectivity, and proximity of local destinations, correlates with destination walking, and similarly destination walking correlates with physical health. It was found, however, that the built environment and health metrics may not be simply, directly correlated but rather may be correlated through a series of feedback loops that may regulate risk in different ways in different contexts. In particular, evidence for a feedback loop between physical health and destination walking is observed, as well as separate feedback loops between destination walking and objective metrics of the built environment, and destination walking and perception of the built environment. These feedback loops affect the ability to observe how the built environment correlates with residents' physical health. Previous studies have investigated pieces of these associations, but are potentially missing the more complex relationships present. This study proposes a conceptual model describing complex feedback relationships between destination walking and public health, with the built environment expected to increase or decrease the strength of the feedback loop. Evidence supporting these feedback relationships is presented.

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Creating Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy People: Initiating a Research Agenda on the Built Environment and Public Health

Cited by 461 publications

References 39 publications

The Socioeconomic Characteristics, Urban Built Environment and Household Car Ownership in a Rapidly Growing City: Evidence from Zhongshan, China

The Socioeconomic Characteristics, Urban Built Environment and Household Car Ownership in a Rapidly Growing City: Evidence from Zhongshan, China

Bed of roses? The role of garden space in older people's well-being

Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

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