Regeneration and health: a structured, rapid literature review

Abstract

The evidence base for regeneration activities is limited but they have substantial potential to contribute to improving population health. Better quality evidence is available for there being positive health impacts from housing-led regeneration programmes involving refurbishment and specific housing improvements. There is also some evidence of the potential harms of regeneration activities, including social stratification (gentrification and residualisation) and the destabilisation of existing community organisations. Broader labour market and housing policy approaches are also likely to be important as a context for understanding impacts. Regeneration programmes require careful design, implementation and evaluation if they are to contribute to improved health and reduced health inequalities.

Exploring Factors That Influence the Mainstreaming of Gendered Energy Interventions in Poor Urban Environments: A Structured Literature Review

“…A structured literature review collects all empirical evidence that matches pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer specific research questions [22]. Although this method is time-consuming and labour-intensive, it provides high quality, efficient results in many engineering literature review works [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. The evidence-informed PRISMA methodology is adopted to ensure transparency, structure, and clear reviewing of the available literature [20].…”

Estimating the Impacts of Area Regeneration Programmes in Scotland on Health and Unemployment: a quasi-experimental approach

“…When these increase, there is a greater likelihood of loss of contact with respondents. Thus, a further major challenge to evaluating area regeneration programmes pertains to the availability of appropriate longitudinal data that can (1) enable the detection of change over time at the small-area level, (2) can account for the fact that resident populations may change substantially during the period of the regeneration, either naturally or indeed as a consequence of the programme, and 3can have a large enough sample size to generalise findings to the wider population (McCartney et al, 2017).…”

“…Unemployment is conceptualised in this analysis as an indicator of poor health (McCartney et al, 2017). Not only does the extant literature on the effects of unemployment indicate a strong association with poor health outcomes (e.g.…”

“…A systematic review investigating the public health impacts of area regeneration programmes in the United Kingdom (1980Kingdom ( -2004 by Thomson et al (2006) concluded that there is little evidence of the impact of national area regeneration investment on socio-economic or health outcomes. A more recent review on this subject, by McCartney et al (2017) also found that the evidence base for the impacts of area regeneration on health and unemployment is limited and requires better quality evaluation studies to be undertaken to understand the contribution that area regeneration programmes can make to population health.…”

Gentrification Impact to the Community’s Quality of Life in Semarang Old Town

“…Gentrification does not only affect physical, social, economic aspects, but also the aspects of public health (resident health outcome) [1]. The definition of public health here is in a broader context, which concerns healthy living conditions, occupancy density, availability of green open space, as well as the financial capacity (socio-economic) of the community which can be identified through types of employment and income [1][2][3]. This study attempts to analyze the effect of gentrification on city's health in the Old Town of Semarang.…”