The Impact of Community Design and Land-Use Choices on Public Health
A Scientific Research Agenda
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The design of a community’s built environment influences the physical and mental health of its residents. Because few studies have investigated this relationship, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a workshop in May 2002 to help develop a scientific research agenda on these issues. Workshop participants’ areas of expertise included physical activity, injury prevention, air pollution, water quality, urban planning, transportation, architecture, epidemiology, land use, mental health, social capital, housing, and social marketing. This report describes the 37 questions in the resulting research agenda. The next steps are to define priorities and obtain resources. The proposed research will help identify the best practices for designing new communities and revitalizing old ones in ways that promote physical and mental health
Built environment · Civil engineering · Environmental health · Level design · Mental health · Poison control · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Engineering · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Gerontology
Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social-Ecological Resilience
Are self-reported physical activity levels associated with perceived desirability of activity-friendly communities
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health
Public Health Asks of Systems Science
Zoning Out Crime and Improving Community Health in Sarasota, Florida
Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health
Environmental influences on food choice, physical activity and energy balance
A review of urban physical environment sensing using street view imagery in public health studies
Measuring the Built Environment for Physical Activity
Linking objectively measured physical activity with objectively measured urban form
Obesity relationships with community design, physical activity, and time spent in cars
Where Are Youth Active? Roles of Proximity, Active Transport, and Built Environment
The development of a walkability index
Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
Built Environment, Adiposity, and Physical Activity in Adults Aged 50–75
Pathways from built environment to health
Many Pathways from Land Use to Health
Promoting active transport in rural communities through infrastructural modifications
Developing an Exploratory Framework Linking Australian Aboriginal Peoples’ Connection to Country and Concepts of Wellbeing
Homicide and geographic access to gun dealers in the United States
Designing Urban Green Spaces for Older Adults in Asian Cities
Impacts of Thermal Environments on Health Risk
The Influence of Urban Natural and Built Environments on Physiological and Psychological Measures of Stress— A Pilot Study
Lexical neutrality in environmental health research
The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (Wasabe)
Assessing the micro-scale environment using Google Street View
Exposure to public natural space as a protective factor for emotional well-being among young people in Canada
Obesity Stigma
Exploring the relationships between housing, neighbourhoods and mental wellbeing for residents of deprived areas
Relationships between Vacant Homes and Food Swamps
Identifying mechanisms for facilitating knowledge to action strategies targeting the built environment
Exploring the Relevance of Green Space and Epidemic Diseases Based on Panel Data in China from 2007 to 2016
“Losing access to outdoor spaces was the biggest challenge for children to be healthy”
Responding to mass displacement - A competency framework for built environment professionals
D multi-aspect mix degree index
Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health
Heading in the Right Direction? Investigating Walkability in Galway City, Ireland
Estimating the effects of light rail transit on health care costs
Healthy communities
The link between obesity and the built environment. Evidence from an ecological analysis of obesity and vehicle miles of travel in California
Place-focused physical activity research, human agency, and social justice in public health
Clustering of unhealthy outdoor advertisements around child-serving institutions
Participatory photo mapping (PPM)
Built Environment and Physical Activity for Transportation in Adults from Curitiba, Brazil
Is the Environment Near Home and School Associated with Physical Activity and Adiposity of Urban Preschool Children
Noise Levels Associated with Urban Land Use
Neighborhood Recreation Facilities and Facility Membership Are Jointly Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity
Neighborhood Crime-Related Safety and Its Relation to Children’s Physical Activity
Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking
Planning and Public Health
Building communities to promote physical activity
How Important Is Having Amenities Within Walking Distance to Middle-Aged and Older Adults, and Does the Perceived Importance Relate to Walking
A Matter of Justice
Spatial context and informal caregivers’ Well-being
Association between property investments and crime on commercial and residential streets
Making the Connection Between Zoning and Health Disparities
The unheard voices of youth in urban planning
Green Space, Violence, and Crime
Creating people-friendly cities in a data rich world
Advancing green space equity via policy change
Nature-Based Strategies for Improving Urban Health and Safety
Social capital and mental health
Land use perception of self-reported health
Principles of just urban land use planning
Four urban health paradigms
Housing conditions, sanitation status and associated health risks in selected subsidized low-cost housing settlements in Cape Town, South Africa
Social cohesion and local democracy as determinants of health
Liveability as determinant of health
Assessing the health equity impacts of regional land-use plan making
Leisure and Active Lifestyles
Health Beliefs and Attitudes
How ‘age-friendly’ are rural communities and what community characteristics are related to age-friendliness? The case of rural Manitoba, Canada
The Impact of the Built Environment on Children's School Conduct Grades
Reaiming RE-AIM
Skewed Riskscapes and Gentrified Inequities
Growing the Field of Health Impact Assessment in the United States
Health and the Built Environment
Protecting Health Using an Environmental Impact Assessment
Healthy Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Mobility and Aging
Proximity of Licensed Child Care Facilities to Near-Roadway Vehicle Pollution
Effect of Individual or Neighborhood Disadvantage on the Association Between Neighborhood Walkability and Body Mass Index
Public Health Systems Research
Jane Jacobs and ‘The Need for Aged Buildings’
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat
Smart Cities, Healthy Kids
Neighborhood Characteristics and Older Adults' Well-Being
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster
Linking public health and heritage work
Proximity and Perceived Safety as Determinants of Urban Trail Use
The Built Environment and Human Activity Patterns
Social Capital and Community Effects on Population and Individual Health
Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2000
Urban sprawl and public health
Coping with add
Developing a reliable audit instrument to measure the physical environment for physical activity
How the built environment affects physical activity
The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activityA systematic review1 and 2
The Built Environment and Mental Health
Housing and health—Current issues and implications for research and programs
Social capital and health promotion
Zoning Out Crime and Improving Community Health in Sarasota, Florida
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health
Sprawl In The 1990s
Environment and Crime in the Inner City
| Unique citing works | 92 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |