Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: an umbrella review

Bird, Emma; Ige, Janet; Pilkington, Paul; Pinto, Andrew D.; Petrokofsky, Carl; Burgess‐Allen, Jilla

doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5870-2

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“…Other perspectives have had a greater acceptance amongst urban planners and designers, especially participatory approaches (Blancafort and Reus, 2015;Rowe, 2004) and feminist planning (Ortiz Escalante and Gutiérrez Valdivia, 2015). The inclusion of health criteria in public space design is still incipient, even if several authors have worked on tools that may assist planners and designers to conceptualize, design and build with a health perspective (Bird et al, 2018;Public Health Scotland, 2019). It remains to be seen how these ideas are mainstreamed and what physical form they will take.…”

Section: Will the Pandemic Accelerate The Mainstreaming Of Health Crimentioning

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: A Review of the Emerging Questions

Honey-Rosés¹,

Anguelovski²,

Bohigas³

et al. 2020

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Restrictions on the use of public space and social distancing have been key policy measures to reduce the transmission of SAR-CoV-2 and protect public health. At the time of writing, one half of the world’s population has been asked to stay home and avoid many public places. What will be the long term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public space once the restrictions have been lifted? The depth and extent of transformation is unclear, especially as it relates to the future design, use and perceptions of public space. This article aims to highlight emerging questions at the interface of COVID-19 and city design. It is possible that the COVID-19 crisis may fundamentally change our relationship with public space. In the ensuing months and years, it will be critical to study and measure these changes in order to inform urban planning and design in a post-COVID-19 world.

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Section: Will the Pandemic Accelerate The Mainstreaming Of Health Crimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: A Review of the Emerging Questions

Honey-Rosés¹,

Anguelovski²,

Bohigas³

et al. 2020

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“…The built environment is human-made or modified surroundings, such as buildings, land use (e.g., layout of communities, transportation systems, infrastructures), or green space (12). Research has indicated that built environments and health issues are inextricably linked, because exposure factors affects body condition of human beings (103). Patterns of land development, transportation infrastructure, and building location and design-the built environment could affect the natural environment by replacing natural areas and changing functions and services of ecosystem, which are closely related to the exposure of human beings in the environment.…”

Section: Built Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Advancement on Influencing Factors of Acne: An Emphasis on Environment Characteristics

Yang

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Background: Acne vulgaris is known as a commonly-seen skin disease with a considerable impact on the quality of life. At present, there have been a growing number of epidemiological, medical, demographic and sociological researches focusing on various influencing factors in the occurrence of acne. Nevertheless, the correlation between environmental factors and acne has yet to be fully investigated. Objective: To assess the impacts of individual, natural and social environmental factors on acne and to construct a framework for the potential impact of built environment on acne. Methods: A thorough review was conducted into the published social demographical, epidemiological, and environmental studies on acne through PubMed, Google Scholar and Web of Science, with reference made to the relevant literature. Results: The influencing factors in acne are classed into four major categories. The first one includes individual socioeconomic and biological factors, for example, gender, age, economic level, heredity, obesity, skin type, menstrual cycle (for females), diet, smoking, cosmetics products, electronic products, sleep quality and psychological factors. The second one includes such natural environmental factors as temperature, humidity, sun exposure, air pollution and chloracne. The third one relates to social environment, including social network and social media. The last one includes built environmental factors, for example, population density, food stores, green spaces, as well as other built environment characteristics for transport. Acne can be affected negatively by family history, overweight, obesity, oily or mixed skin, irregular menstrual cycles, sugary food, greasy food, dairy products, smoking, the improper use of cosmetics, the long-term use of electronics, the poor quality of sleep, stress, high temperature, sun exposure, air pollution, mineral oils and halogenated hydrocarbons. Apart from that, there are also potential links between built environment and acne. Yang et al. Acne Conclusions: It is necessary to determine the correlation between the built environment and acne based on the understanding of the impact of traditional factors (sociology of population and environment) on acne gained by multidisciplinary research teams. Moreover, more empirical studies are required to reveal the specific relationship between built environment and acne.

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“…Controlled experimentation is rarely feasible in the economic evaluation of NE interventions because of the cost and complexity of such studies. Evaluations of NE interventions are thus overwhelmingly based on observational data and any causal inference is limited by potential bias arising from uncontrolled baseline differences between intervention and control groups [ 9 ]. When considering utilising a before and after approach, it is important to note that NE interventions are often added into a system over time, and so it is difficult to determine when the intervention period begins and the control period stops.…”

Section: Methodological Challenges In Conducting Economic Evaluatimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Environmental interventions are multifaceted and are expected to impact health via several pathways such as by reducing exposure to environmental risk factors, promoting physical activity, and improving mental health [ 9 ]. The links between risk factors and health conditions may be inter-dependent and not independently additive.…”

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Economic Evaluation of Environmental Interventions: Reflections on Methodological Challenges and Developments

Bojke

Schmitt

Lomas

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Evaluation of the costs and outcomes associated with environmental policies and interventions is often required to inform public policy and allocate scarce resources. Methods to conduct assessments of cost-effectiveness have been developed in the context of pharmaceuticals, but have more recently been applied in public health, diagnostics, and other more complex interventions. The suitability of existing economic evaluation methodology has been explored in many contexts, however, this is yet to be undertaken for interventions and policies pertaining to the natural environment, such as urban green spaces and strategies to reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution. To make significant inroads into the evaluation of interventions and policies relating to the natural environment requires an understanding of the challenges faced in this context. Many of these challenges may be practical (data-related), however, a number are also methodological, and thus have implications for the appropriate framework for economic evaluation. This paper considers some of the challenges faced when conducting cost-effectiveness analyses in this context and explores what solutions have been proposed thus far. The intention is to help pave the way for consideration of which existing framework is most appropriate for the evaluation of natural environment (NE) interventions, or if a distinct framework is required. Environmental policies and interventions relating to the built environment, for example, housing, are not explicitly included here.

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Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: an umbrella review

Cited by 115 publications

References 12 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: A Review of the Emerging Questions

The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: A Review of the Emerging Questions

A Review of Advancement on Influencing Factors of Acne: An Emphasis on Environment Characteristics

Economic Evaluation of Environmental Interventions: Reflections on Methodological Challenges and Developments

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