Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review

Wray, Alexander; Minaker, Leia M.

doi:10.1002/cncr.32376

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“…The built environment has long been viewed as a structural determinant of health by social epidemiologists [1]. A substantial body of research has documented the association of built environment characteristicssuch as accessibility, physical disorder, access to public transit and recreational spaces, and greenerywith health-related behaviors [2], health outcomes [3][4][5][6][7], and health care expenditures [8]. Features of the built environment may influence health-related behaviors and outcomes through several pathways, including encouraging (or discouraging) exercise and recreational activities, determining whether residents have easy access to healthy foods and preventive health resources, and affecting stress and other psychosocial factors.…”

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Health and the built environment in United States cities: measuring associations using Google Street View-derived indicators of the built environment

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Background: The built environment is a structural determinant of health and has been shown to influence health expenditures, behaviors, and outcomes. Traditional methods of assessing built environment characteristics are timeconsuming and difficult to combine or compare. Google Street View (GSV) images represent a large, publicly available data source that can be used to create indicators of characteristics of the physical environment with machine learning techniques. The aim of this study is to use GSV images to measure the association of built environment features with health-related behaviors and outcomes at the census tract level. Methods: We used computer vision techniques to derive built environment indicators from approximately 31 million GSV images at 7.8 million intersections. Associations between derived indicators and health-related behaviors and outcomes on the census-tract level were assessed using multivariate regression models, controlling for demographic factors and socioeconomic position. Statistical significance was assessed at the α = 0.05 level. Results: Single lane roads were associated with increased diabetes and obesity, while non-single-family home buildings were associated with decreased obesity, diabetes and inactivity. Street greenness was associated with decreased prevalence of physical and mental distress, as well as decreased binge drinking, but with increased obesity. Socioeconomic disadvantage was negatively associated with binge drinking prevalence and positively associated with all other health-related behaviors and outcomes. Conclusions: Structural determinants of health such as the built environment can influence population health. Our study suggests that higher levels of urban development have mixed effects on health and adds further evidence that socioeconomic distress has adverse impacts on multiple physical and mental health outcomes.

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Health and the built environment in United States cities: measuring associations using Google Street View-derived indicators of the built environment

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“…In 2015, there were 376,000 new cases and 191,000 deaths in China [459]. The overall incidence of CRC is decreasing in many high-income countries, although reported significant increase in Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, UK and Canada, mainly driven by increases in distal (left) tumors of the colon and predominant in [460][461][462][463][464][465][466][467]. Lifestyle determines around 50% to 60% incident of CRC irrespective of age [468][469][470][471].…”

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Clinical Pharmacists in Chronic Care

Mohiuddin¹

2019

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Pharmacy practice has changed significantly lately. The professionals have the chance to contribute straightforwardly to patient consideration so as to lessen morbimortality identified with medication use, promoting wellbeing and preventing diseases. Healthcare organizations worldwide are under substantial pressure from increasing patient demand. Unfortunately, a cure is not always possible particularly in this era of chronic complications, and the role of physicians has become limited to controlling and palliating symptoms.The increasing population of patients with longterm conditions are associated with high levels of morbidity, healthcare costs and GP workloads. Clinical pharmacy took over an aspect of medical care that had been partially abandoned by physicians. Overburdened by patient loads and the explosion of new drugs, physicians turned to pharmacists more and more for drug information, especially within institutional settings. Once relegated to counting and pouring, pharmacists headed institutional reviews of drug utilization and served as consultants to all types of health-care facilities. In addition, when clinical pharmacists are active members of the care team, they enhance proficiency by: Providing critical input on medicine use and dosing. Working with patients to solve problems with their medications and improve compliance.

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“…In 2015, there were 376,000 new cases and 191,000 deaths in China [430]. The overall incidence of CRC is decreasing in many high-income countries, although reported significant increase in Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, UK and Canada, mainly driven by increases in distal (left) tumors of the colon and predominant in [431][432][433][434][435][436][437][438]. Lifestyle determines around 50% to 60% incident of CRC irrespective of age [439][440][441][442].…”

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confidence: 99%

Alternative Treatments for Cancer Prevention and Cure [Part 1]

Mohiuddin¹

2019

APCT

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Many lay people along with some so called "key opinion leaders" have a common slogan "There's no answer for cancer". Again, mistake delays proper treatment and make situation worse, more often. Compliance is crucial to obtain optimal health outcomes, such as cure or improvement in QoL. Patients may delay treatment or fail to seek care because of high out-of-pocket expenditures. Despite phenomenal development, conventional therapy falls short in cancer management. There are two major hurdles in anticancer drug development: dose-limiting toxic side effects that reduce either drug effectiveness or the QoL of patients and complicated drug development processes that are costly and time consuming. Cancer patients are increasingly seeking out alternative medicine and might be reluctant to disclose its use to their oncology treatment physicians. But there is limited available information on patterns of utilization and efficacy of alternative medicine for patients with cancer. As adjuvant therapy, many traditional medicines shown efficacy against brain, head and neck, skin, breast, liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder, prostate, colon and blood cancers. The literature reviews non-pharmacological interventions used against cancer, published trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review

Cited by 43 publications

References 82 publications

Health and the built environment in United States cities: measuring associations using Google Street View-derived indicators of the built environment

Health and the built environment in United States cities: measuring associations using Google Street View-derived indicators of the built environment

Clinical Pharmacists in Chronic Care

Alternative Treatments for Cancer Prevention and Cure [Part 1]

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