Evaluating health impacts: Results from the neighbourhood renewal stratgey in Victoria, Australia

Prevalence and psychiatric correlates of neighbourhood satisfaction and its impact on adolescent behaviours: UK understanding society cohort, 2011–2012

“…In the current analysis, it was observed that adolescents who reported neighbourhood dissatisfaction were more unlikely to finish works, being consistent with recent studies carried out in the US and Canada with low self-efficacy (Winograd et al, 2008;Voorhees et al, 2011). Therefore, consideration of neighbourhood renewal strategy or place-making could be suggested being integrated into public health programs and/or put onto public health policy agenda since in Australia it was found to be effective to close the gap in health inequalities (Kelaher et al, 2010;Sampson and Place-making, 2010). This could include both natural and social environments.…”

The impact of urban regeneration programmes on health and health-related behaviour: Evaluation of the Dutch District Approach 6.5 years from the start

“…For example, effects on overweight can only be assessed after several years, as it may take some years before changes in physical activity or dietary patterns result into a reduced prevalence of overweight within populations. Indeed, evaluations in other countries often failed to show average health improvements on the short term [13–16], whereas studies evaluating the impact of urban regeneration after five or six years more often reported positive health results [17–20]. …”

The association between neighborhood residential rehabilitation and injection drug use in Baltimore, Maryland, 2000–2011

“…However, there are examples in Baltimore, where marginalized populations have been employed to assist smaller community-driven redevelopment initiatives [64]. Similar efforts made by other redevelopment projects would be expected to benefit people with a history of drug abuse given the established relationships between poverty and drug abuse [1, 4, 8, 11], and the relationships among employment, community mobilization, and improvements in health, including reductions in drug abuse [18, 66-68]. We were unable to determine the extent to which participants may have been employed through urban redevelopment in this study.…”

“…Urban redevelopment is one strategy that aims to improve economic, physical, and social conditions in cities by revitalizing and constructing physical infrastructure [12]. Globally, an emerging field of research has revealed the potential implications of urban redevelopment on the health of residents living in socially and economically distressed areas [13-18]. Few of these studies, however, have focused on drug abuse, despite the role of decaying neighborhood conditions on drug abuse and the social and economic costs of drug abuse.…”