Iana Markevych
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iana Markevych |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iana |
| FAMILY NAME | Markevych |
| SIGNATURE | MARKEVYCH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmholtz Zentrum München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5214-0748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evidence-Based Policy for Urban Environmental Health: A Cross-Sectional Stakeholder Survey in Bulgaria
Background: Translating urban environmental health evidence into actionable policies remains challenging in South-Eastern Europe, where environmental epidemiology has yet to reach maturity and institutional capacity and cross-sector coordination are suboptimal. This study assessed stakeholders’ awareness, perceived roles, and prioritization of urban health challenges, alongside the barriers and evidence needs related to healthy and sustainable ur…
Association of Socioeconomic Status With IQ and Attention in School Children in Poland, a Country With Relatively Low Socioeconomic Differences
Socioeconomic inequalities affect health via multiple biological, behavioral, and social pathways. Specifically, low socioeconomic status (SES) negatively impacts children's intelligence quotient (IQ). Most data on this topic comes from high‐inequality countries such as the United States. Here, we investigate the relation between SES, IQ, and attention and how it might be mediated by early‐childhood factors in 10‐ to 13‐year‐old children in Polan…
Family Cohesion and Behavioural Problems in Young Adolescents: Mediating Effects of Neighbourhood Cohesion and Moderating Roles of Individual and Family Structure Factors
This study aimed to determine whether family and neighbourhood social cohesion are directly or indirectly associated with the reduction of behavioural problems, including internalising and externalising behaviours in young adolescents. Strong family and neighbourhood cohesion both play protective roles in maintaining the mental health of children and adolescents. From a systemic approach, adolescent behavioural problems are linked to family cohes…
Does nature make us less lonely? Analysis in Bulgaria's five largest cities
Our findings underscore the importance of extending and improving structured urban green spaces in Bulgarian cities
Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework
Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity relates to human health remains limited in important respects. In particular, a better mechanistic understanding of the range of pathways through which biodiversity can influence human health is needed. These pathways relate to both psychological and social process…
NeuroSmog: Determining the Impact of Air Pollution on the Developing Brain: Project Protocol
Exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) may affect neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. The mechanisms underlying these relationships are not currently known. We aim to assess whether PM affects the developing brains of schoolchildren in Poland, a country characterized by high levels of PM pollution. Children aged from 10 to 13 years ( n = 800) are recruited to participate in this case-control study. Cases (children with attention defici…
Analytical approaches to testing pathways linking greenspace to health: A scoping review of the empirical literature
Associations of Preconception Exposure to Air Pollution and Greenness with Offspring Asthma and Hay Fever
We investigated if greenness and air pollution exposure in parents' childhood affect offspring asthma and hay fever, and if effects were mediated through parental asthma, pregnancy greenness/pollution exposure, and offspring exposure. We analysed 1106 parents with 1949 offspring (mean age 35 and 6) from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) generation study. Mean particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10 ), nitrogen…
Impact of Residential Green Space on Sleep Quality and Sufficiency in Children and Adolescents Residing in Australia and Germany
Increasing evidence suggests adults living in greener areas tend to have more favourable sleep-related outcomes, but children and adolescents are under-researched. We hypothesised that children and adolescents living in greener areas would have better quality and more sufficient levels of sleep on average, especially within the context of high traffic noise exposure. These hypotheses were tested using multilevel logistic regressions fitted on sam…
Urban residential greenspace and mental health in youth: Different approaches to testing multiple pathways yield different conclusions
Multiple pathways link urban green- and bluespace to mental health in young adults
Lower Noise Annoyance Associated with GIS-Derived Greenspace: Pathways through Perceived Greenspace and Residential Noise
Growing amounts of evidence support an association between self-reported greenspace near the home and lower noise annoyance; however, objectively defined greenspace has rarely been considered. In the present study, we tested the association between objective measures of greenspace and noise annoyance, with a focus on underpinning pathways through noise level and perceived greenspace. We sampled 720 students aged 18 to 35 years from the city of Pl…
Outdoor air pollution, green space, and cancer incidence in Saxony: A semi-individual cohort study
In addition to the studies carried out so far, this study was able to provide evidence that higher ambient AP levels increase the risk of mouth and throat cancer as well as of NMSC and that a higher residential green space level might have a protective effect for NMSC in areas with low to moderate UV intensity. Nevertheless, we cannot rule out residual confounding by socioeconomic or smoking status
Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance
A cross-sectional analysis of the effects of residential greenness on blood pressure in 10-year old children: Results from the Giniplus and Lisaplus studies
Lower residential greenness was positively associated with higher BP in 10 year-old children living in an urbanised area. Further studies varying in participants' age, geographical area and urbanisation level are required
Greenness and allergies: Evidence of differential associations in two areas in Germany
BACKGROUND: Positive greenness effects on health are increasingly reported, although studies on allergic outcomes remain limited and conflicting. We examined whether residential greenness is associated with childhood doctor diagnosed allergic rhinitis, eyes and nose symptoms and aeroallergen sensitisation using two combined birth cohorts (GINIplus and LISAplus) followed from birth to 10 years in northern and southern Germany (Ntotal=5803). METHOD…
Surrounding greenness and birth weight: Results from the Giniplus and Lisaplus birth cohorts in Munich
Surrounding greenness and birth weight: Results from the Giniplus and Lisaplus birth cohorts in Munich
Does nature make us less lonely? Analysis in Bulgaria's five largest cities
Our findings underscore the importance of extending and improving structured urban green spaces in Bulgarian cities
Surrounding greenness and birth weight: Results from the Giniplus and Lisaplus birth cohorts in Munich
A cross-sectional analysis of the effects of residential greenness on blood pressure in 10-year old children: Results from the Giniplus and Lisaplus studies
Lower residential greenness was positively associated with higher BP in 10 year-old children living in an urbanised area. Further studies varying in participants' age, geographical area and urbanisation level are required
Greenness and allergies: Evidence of differential associations in two areas in Germany
BACKGROUND: Positive greenness effects on health are increasingly reported, although studies on allergic outcomes remain limited and conflicting. We examined whether residential greenness is associated with childhood doctor diagnosed allergic rhinitis, eyes and nose symptoms and aeroallergen sensitisation using two combined birth cohorts (GINIplus and LISAplus) followed from birth to 10 years in northern and southern Germany (Ntotal=5803). METHOD…
Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance
Urban residential greenspace and mental health in youth: Different approaches to testing multiple pathways yield different conclusions
Multiple pathways link urban green- and bluespace to mental health in young adults
Lower Noise Annoyance Associated with GIS-Derived Greenspace: Pathways through Perceived Greenspace and Residential Noise
Growing amounts of evidence support an association between self-reported greenspace near the home and lower noise annoyance; however, objectively defined greenspace has rarely been considered. In the present study, we tested the association between objective measures of greenspace and noise annoyance, with a focus on underpinning pathways through noise level and perceived greenspace. We sampled 720 students aged 18 to 35 years from the city of Pl…
Outdoor air pollution, green space, and cancer incidence in Saxony: A semi-individual cohort study
In addition to the studies carried out so far, this study was able to provide evidence that higher ambient AP levels increase the risk of mouth and throat cancer as well as of NMSC and that a higher residential green space level might have a protective effect for NMSC in areas with low to moderate UV intensity. Nevertheless, we cannot rule out residual confounding by socioeconomic or smoking status
Analytical approaches to testing pathways linking greenspace to health: A scoping review of the empirical literature
Associations of Preconception Exposure to Air Pollution and Greenness with Offspring Asthma and Hay Fever
We investigated if greenness and air pollution exposure in parents' childhood affect offspring asthma and hay fever, and if effects were mediated through parental asthma, pregnancy greenness/pollution exposure, and offspring exposure. We analysed 1106 parents with 1949 offspring (mean age 35 and 6) from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) generation study. Mean particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10 ), nitrogen…
Impact of Residential Green Space on Sleep Quality and Sufficiency in Children and Adolescents Residing in Australia and Germany
Increasing evidence suggests adults living in greener areas tend to have more favourable sleep-related outcomes, but children and adolescents are under-researched. We hypothesised that children and adolescents living in greener areas would have better quality and more sufficient levels of sleep on average, especially within the context of high traffic noise exposure. These hypotheses were tested using multilevel logistic regressions fitted on sam…
Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework
Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity relates to human health remains limited in important respects. In particular, a better mechanistic understanding of the range of pathways through which biodiversity can influence human health is needed. These pathways relate to both psychological and social process…
NeuroSmog: Determining the Impact of Air Pollution on the Developing Brain: Project Protocol
Exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) may affect neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. The mechanisms underlying these relationships are not currently known. We aim to assess whether PM affects the developing brains of schoolchildren in Poland, a country characterized by high levels of PM pollution. Children aged from 10 to 13 years ( n = 800) are recruited to participate in this case-control study. Cases (children with attention defici…
Association of Socioeconomic Status With IQ and Attention in School Children in Poland, a Country With Relatively Low Socioeconomic Differences
Socioeconomic inequalities affect health via multiple biological, behavioral, and social pathways. Specifically, low socioeconomic status (SES) negatively impacts children's intelligence quotient (IQ). Most data on this topic comes from high‐inequality countries such as the United States. Here, we investigate the relation between SES, IQ, and attention and how it might be mediated by early‐childhood factors in 10‐ to 13‐year‐old children in Polan…
Family Cohesion and Behavioural Problems in Young Adolescents: Mediating Effects of Neighbourhood Cohesion and Moderating Roles of Individual and Family Structure Factors
This study aimed to determine whether family and neighbourhood social cohesion are directly or indirectly associated with the reduction of behavioural problems, including internalising and externalising behaviours in young adolescents. Strong family and neighbourhood cohesion both play protective roles in maintaining the mental health of children and adolescents. From a systemic approach, adolescent behavioural problems are linked to family cohes…
Does nature make us less lonely? Analysis in Bulgaria's five largest cities
Our findings underscore the importance of extending and improving structured urban green spaces in Bulgarian cities
Evidence-Based Policy for Urban Environmental Health: A Cross-Sectional Stakeholder Survey in Bulgaria
Background: Translating urban environmental health evidence into actionable policies remains challenging in South-Eastern Europe, where environmental epidemiology has yet to reach maturity and institutional capacity and cross-sector coordination are suboptimal. This study assessed stakeholders’ awareness, perceived roles, and prioritization of urban health challenges, alongside the barriers and evidence needs related to healthy and sustainable ur…
Medicine (15 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (13 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Noise Effects and Management (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 works) · Demography (5 works)