abstract：:Children's perceptions of their environment have been associated with their physical activity (PA) levels, however a better understanding of the formation of perceptions within different contexts is needed. This will help to inform decision making related to physical inactivity trends in Canadian children. We examined...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Taylor LG,Clark AF,Gilliland JA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used longitudinal information on area deprivation status to explore the relationship between residential-deprivation mobility and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). Data from 2,418,397 individuals who were: enrolled in any Primary Health Organisation within New Zealand (NZ) during at least 1 of 34 calendar quarters betw...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Shackleton N,Darlington-Pollock F,Norman P,Jackson R,Exeter DJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored links between food environments, dietary intake biomarkers, and sudden cardiac arrest in a population-based longitudinal study using cases and controls accruing between 1990 and 2010 in King County, WA. Surprisingly, presence of more unhealthy food sources near home was associated with a lower 18:1 trans-f...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Mooney SJ,Lemaitre RN,Siscovick DS,Hurvitz P,Goh CE,Kaufman TK,Zulaika G,Sheehan DM,Sotoodehnia N,Lovasi GS

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study explored association of neighborhood elements to children's health and related outcomes. Nationally representative data (N = 49,513,974, ages 6-17, 51.1% Male) was used to empirically define classes of neighborhoods based on presence or absence of various neighborhood elements. Analyses resulted in a...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Liu SR,Kia-Keating M,Santacrose DE,Modir S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic and theoretically informed analysis of how extractive industries affect health outcomes and health inequities is overdue. Informed by the work of Saskia Sassen on "logics of extraction," we adopt an expansive definition of extractive industries to include (for example) large-scale foreign acquisitions of ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Schrecker T,Birn AE,Aguilera M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated changes in supermarket access in Chicago between 2007 and 2014, spanning The Great Recession, which we hypothesized worsened local food inequity. We mapped the average street network distance to the nearest supermarket across census tracts in 2007, 2011, and 2014, and identified spatial clusters of per...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Kolak M,Bradley M,Block DR,Pool L,Garg G,Toman CK,Boatright K,Lipiszko D,Koschinsky J,Kershaw K,Carnethon M,Isakova T,Wolf M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small, decentralised communities, known as outstations which satellite larger Indigenous Australian remote communities have often been conceptualised as places that are beneficial to health and well-being. This paper provides an exploration of the meaning of an outstation for one family and the benefits that this ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Senior K,Chenhall R,Hall J,Daniels D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly known simply as lupus, is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy tissue and organs. Characteristic of the disease is a disproportionate effect on women and communities of color, both in terms of prevalence and severity of symptoms. Lupus is ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Kinsey D,Paul CP,Taylor D,Caricchio R,Kulathinal RJ,Hayes-Conroy A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 25% of the world's population consists of young people. The experience of violence peaks during adolescence and the early adult years. A link between personal experience of violence and mental health among young people has been demonstrated but rural-urban differences in these associations are ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Manyema M,Norris SA,Said-Mohamed R,Tollman ST,Twine R,Kahn K,Richter LM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore how the identity of people with advanced cancer is influenced by their experiences of living at home. A total of 28 in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 people with advanced cancer and four spouses. Grounded theory guided the collection and analysis of data. Home tours an...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Maersk JL,Cutchin MP,la Cour K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare access and utilization remain key challenges in the Global South. South Africa represents this given that more than twenty years after the advent of democratic elections, the national government continues to confront historical systems of spatial manipulation that generated inequities in healthcare access. ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Winchester MS,King B

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to study the correspondence between the objective and perceived environment and to assess their associations with physical activity (PA) in older people. 848 community-dwelling older people aged 75-90 were interviewed on their difficulties in walking 500m, perceiving nature as a facilitator for outdoor mob...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Keskinen KE,Rantakokko M,Suomi K,Rantanen T,Portegijs E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate whether communities with improving population health will subsequently experience rising real estate prices. Home price indices (HPIs) for 371 MSAs from 1990 to 2010 are regressed against life-expectancy five years prior. HPIs come from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Life expectancy estimates come ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Nau C,Bishai D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is the first of its kind to utilize longitudinal, nationally representative panel data from the United States to assess the relationship between exposure to air pollution and reports of psychological distress. Using annual-average measures of air pollution in respondents' census blocks of residence we find ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Sass V,Kravitz-Wirtz N,Karceski SM,Hajat A,Crowder K,Takeuchi D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:International lifestyle and retirement migration is a growing phenomenon, yet little is known about migrants' experiences of health care in destination countries. This includes use of and access to pharmaceutical selling establishments. This article explores international lifestyle and retirement migrants' experiences...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Hoffman L,Crooks VA,Snyder J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesized role of deep coal mining in the development of community-based outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis has gone largely unexplored. Taking the coalfields of Britain as a historical testbed, techniques of linear and binomial logistic regression were used to assess the association between meningococcal me...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Smallman-Raynor MR,Cliff AD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing child mortality is a Sustainable Development Goal yet to be achieved by many low-income countries. We applied a subnational and spatial approach based on publicly available datasets and identified permanent insolvency, urbanicity, and malaria endemicity as factors associated with child mortality. We further d...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Gruebner O,Khan M,Burkart K,Lautenbach S,Lakes T,Krämer A,Subramanian SV,Galea S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recreational running is increasingly widespread and could therefore be seen as the obvious target for those hoping to encourage greater public health through exercise. Existing qualitative research on this topic has, however, tended to focus on groups of highly committed runners. It is accordingly unclear whether thei...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Hitchings R,Latham A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health benefits of physical activity are many and well known. Those hoping to promote public health are therefore understandably keen on encouraging physical exercise. This commentary considers the role of qualitative research in this undertaking, given a context in which medical researchers have more commonly tak...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Hitchings R,Latham A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood obesity is a global issue. Understanding associated factors is essential in designing interventions to reduce its prevalence. There are knowledge gaps concerning the leptogenic potential of play areas for very young children and particularly whether there is an association between levels of childho...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Poole R,Moon G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the neighbourhood environment in influencing health behaviours continues to be an important topic in public health research and policy. Foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and secondary data sources are widespread data collection methods used to objectively measure the built environment in envi...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Pliakas T,Hawkesworth S,Silverwood RJ,Nanchahal K,Grundy C,Armstrong B,Casas JP,Morris RW,Wilkinson P,Lock K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctor-patient conflicts in contemporary China are increasing in numbers and severity. This health geographic study shows how hospitals as a type of therapeutic landscape can shape doctor-patient relationships. First, the comprehensive nature of therapeutic landscapes with an emphasis on power operation within symboli...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Zhou P,Grady SC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we contribute to the social sciences literature on voluntarism by examining the dynamics of voluntary service provision for people living with dementia in rural settings. Although volunteer-based organizations provide community support services across a range of Western countries, little attention has...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Herron RV,Rosenberg MW,Skinner MW

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether residing within 2 miles of a new supermarket opening was longitudinally associated with a change in body mass index (BMI). We identified 12 new supermarkets that opened between 2009 and 2010 in 8 neighborhoods. Using the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Diabetes Registry, we identified members...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Zhang YT,Laraia BA,Mujahid MS,Blanchard SD,Warton EM,Moffet HH,Karter AJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the spatio-temporal logics at work in global health. Influenced by ideas of time-space compression, the global health literature argues that the world is characterised by a convergence of disease patterns and biomedical knowledge. While not denying the influence of these temporalities and spatial...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Reubi D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how neighborhood crime may relate to health in diabetes patients. We examined associations between individuals' perceptions of neighborhood safety or violent crime and stress, physical activity, body mass index (BMI) or hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in a sample (n=721) of adults (mean age:63) with diabe...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Tamayo A,Karter AJ,Mujahid MS,Warton EM,Moffet HH,Adler N,Schillinger D,Hendrickson O'Connell B,Laraia B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the role of tobacco outlet density in a randomized controlled trial of a text messaging-based smoking cessation intervention conducted among a sample of 187 primarily African American youth in a midsize U.S. city. A moderated mediation model was used to test whether the indirect effect of resid...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Mennis J,Mason M,Way T,Zaharakis N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher density of alcohol outlets has been linked to increased levels of adolescent alcohol-related behaviour. Research to date has been cross-sectional. A longitudinal design using two waves of annual survey data from the Australian arm of the International Youth Development Study was used. The sample comprised 2835 ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Rowland B,Evans-Whipp T,Hemphill S,Leung R,Livingston M,Toumbourou JW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health (INDEPTH) has produced reliable longitudinal data about the lives of people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through a global network of health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) sites. Since reliable demographi...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Jia P,Sankoh O,Tatem AJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social network and area level characteristics have been linked to substance use. We used snowball sampling to recruit 90 predominantly African American emerging adult men who provided typical locations visited (n=510). We used generalized estimating equations to examine social network and area level predictors of subs...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Gibson C,Perley L,Bailey J,Barbour R,Kershaw T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creating local population health measures from administrative data would be useful for health policy and public health monitoring purposes. While a wide range of options--from simple spatial smoothers to model-based methods--for estimating such rates exists, there are relatively few side-by-side comparisons, especiall...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Yasaitis LC,Arcaya MC,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment, health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space' as an important new development Complementing research on healthy green space, blue space is defined as; 'health-enabling places and spaces, where water is at the cen...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Foley R,Kistemann T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the importance of county characteristics in explaining county-level variations in health insurance coverage. Using public databases from 2008 to 2012, we studied 3112 counties in the United States. Rates of uninsurance ranged widely from 3% to 53%. Multivariate analysis suggested that poverty, unem...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Stone LC,Boursaw B,Bettez SP,Larzelere Marley T,Waitzkin H

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the Reasoned Action Approach, an online survey of 74 outdoor pool users illustrates how a theory-based behavioral analysis can be used to identify people's perceptions of a place in their environment. Regression analysis of close-ended data demonstrated that intention "to use the outdoor pool next summer sea...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Middlestadt SE,Anderson A,Ramos WD

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scant data quantify associations between economic and racial/ethnic spatial polarization and individual's exposure to pollution. METHODS:We linked data on the socioeconomic position (SEP) of 1757 urban working class white, black, and Latino adults (age 25-64; Boston, MA: 2003-2004; 2008-2010) to: (1) spatio...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Krieger N,Waterman PD,Gryparis A,Coull BA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several decades, the emphasis on abstinence within homeless support systems has presented significant barriers to care for those who continue to use alcohol or drugs further marginalizing them in terms of housing and health/social services. In response, health care specialists and policymakers have recommended the...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Evans J,Semogas D,Smalley JG,Lohfeld L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aboriginal homelessness is considered to be a result of historic dispossession of traditional territories and forced displacement from community structures. Using data collected from 2005-2010 from the Cedar Project, a cohort of young Aboriginal people who use drugs in two Canadian cities, we examined how residential ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Jongbloed K,Thomas V,Pearce ME,Christian KW,Zhang H,Oviedo-Joekes E,Schechter MT,Spittal PM,Cedar Project Partnership.

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review examines evidence of the association between the neighborhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child health and development. There was evidence that the presence of child relevant neighborhood destinations and services were positively associated with early child ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Christian H,Zubrick SR,Foster S,Giles-Corti B,Bull F,Wood L,Knuiman M,Brinkman S,Houghton S,Boruff B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma prevalence is reportedly low for children of Mexican descent compared with other ethnic groups and Latino subgroups. The results of our exploratory ethnographic research among children of farmworkers in California dramatically suggest otherwise. Unstructured and semi-structured open-ended interviews and photovo...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Schwartz NA,von Glascoe CA,Torres V,Ramos L,Soria-Delgado C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine whether economic dependence on various natural resources is associated with lower investment in health, after controlling for countries' geographical and historical fixed effects, corruption, autocratic regimes, income levels, and initial health status. Employing pan...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： El Anshasy AA,Katsaiti MS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00