Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103338
Hannah Grace Lee , Tyler McCreary , Joanne Connauton
{"title":"Where are the women? Exposing the gap in gender analysis in environmental assessments of fossil fuel pipeline impacts on Indigenous communities","authors":"Hannah Grace Lee , Tyler McCreary , Joanne Connauton","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103338"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142007016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103330
Kerry Ard , Jason Thomas , Clair Bullock
{"title":"Toxic air pollution and cognitive decline: Untangling particulate matter","authors":"Kerry Ard , Jason Thomas , Clair Bullock","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103330","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103330","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is increasing evidence indicating air pollution is an important factor influencing the aging brain. However, much of this work measures air pollution using particulate matter (PM). Yet we know that the chemical components of PM are not consistent across space or time. Rather, the possible chemical mixtures of PM vary and are therefore not reliably measuring the same thing across studies. In this study we attempt to disentangle the effects of the components of measured PM by using estimates of concurrent exposures of 415 industrial air toxics, as well as 44 neuro- and developmental toxics. Using bivariate latent curve models, we leverage individual level panel data from the bi-annual Health and Retirement Study to test how these exposures relate to cognitive score trajectories of respondents across the years 2002–2012. We find that more exposure to neurotoxics was associated with faster rate of cognitive decline by 1.09 points (p < 0.05).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103335
Adriano Bressane , Joao Pedro da Cunha Pinto , Ana Paula Garcia Goulart , Líliam César de Castro Medeiros
{"title":"Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities","authors":"Adriano Bressane , Joao Pedro da Cunha Pinto , Ana Paula Garcia Goulart , Líliam César de Castro Medeiros","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103335","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Urban environments pose challenges to mental health, an issue that Urban Green Spaces (UGS) can potentially mitigate. While the benefits of nature contact for mental wellbeing are recognized, a multidimensional analysis remains unexplored.</p></div><div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study aims to fill this gap by examining the association between nature contact within UGS and mental health. It underscores the importance of considering multiple dimensions of nature engagement—such as naturalness, intensity, duration, frequency, and infrastructure—in enhancing psychological wellbeing.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A comprehensive analysis, including canonical correlation, multivariate analyses of variance, and Fisher discriminant analysis, was applied to survey data from several Brazilian metropolitan cities to assess how different aspects of nature contact influence mental health.</p></div><div><h3>Results and conclusions</h3><p>Findings reveal association between these dimensions and mental wellbeing indicators, highlighting the importance of a multidimensional perspective.</p></div><div><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>Results advocate for incorporating diverse aspects of nature contact in UGS design and policy-making to enhance urban dwellers' mental health.</p></div><div><h3>Future directions</h3><p>Further research should focus on longitudinal studies and explore the mediating effects of socio-demographic factors. Additionally, expanding research to include other developing countries will provide valuable comparative insights.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141998064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103337
Elena Segundo, Jordi Carrere-Molina, María Aragón, Roger Mallol-Parera
{"title":"Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence","authors":"Elena Segundo, Jordi Carrere-Molina, María Aragón, Roger Mallol-Parera","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Established life course approaches suggest that health status in adulthood can be influenced by events that occurred during the prenatal developmental period. Yet, interventions such as diet and lifestyle changes performed during pregnancy have had a small impact on both maternal and offspring health outcomes. Currently, there is a growing body of literature that highlights the importance of maternal health before conception (months or years before pregnancy occurs) for the future health of offspring. While some studies have explored factors such as maternal body composition, nutrition, and lifestyle in this area, location-based environmental and socioeconomic exposures before conception may also contribute to future offspring health. In this line, the study of a patient's geographic history presents a promising avenue. To foster research in this direction, the integration of geospatial health, medical informatics and artificial intelligence techniques offers great potential. Importantly, novel sources of big health data sets such as electronic health records registered at the primary care level provide a unique framework due to its inherent longitudinal nature. Nonetheless, a number of privacy, ethical, and technical challenges need to be overcome for this kind of longitudinal analysis to mature and succeed. In the long-term, we support the vision of incorporating a patient's geographic history into her clinical history to equip clinicians with useful contextual information to explore.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103337"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141990559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103329
Oscar Claveria , Maša Sorić , Petar Sorić
{"title":"Analysis of the impact of financial and labour uncertainty on suicide mortality in England","authors":"Oscar Claveria , Maša Sorić , Petar Sorić","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the relationship between different dimensions of economic uncertainty and suicide rates in England from 1985 to 2020, both in the short and long term. The study employs a non-linear autoregressive distributed lag framework for cointegration estimation. This approach allows testing for the existence of possible asymmetries in the response of suicide mortality to increases in economic uncertainty. Uncertainty is gauged by different proxies that allow computing financial uncertainty and labour market uncertainty indicators. The analysis is replicated by gender and across regions, controlling for unemployment and economic growth. Overall, the analysis suggests that uncertainty intensified during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in line with the stylized facts of economic uncertainty and its pronounced role in recessions. When replicating the experiment by gender, we find that women seem to be more sensitive to changes in uncertainty. Regarding the existence of asymmetries, we found that decreases in economic uncertainty have a greater impact on suicide mortality than increases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103329"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829224001576/pdfft?md5=d49f30e6b66aee59fd4a727229fe0ab0&pid=1-s2.0-S1353829224001576-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141985210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103339
Irmina Klicnik , Roubir Riad Andrawes , Lauren Bell , Jacob Manafo , Emmeline Meens Miller , Winnie Sun , Michael Widener , Shilpa Dogra
{"title":"Insights from neighbourhood walking interviews using the Living Environments and Active Aging Framework (LEAAF) in community-dwelling older adults","authors":"Irmina Klicnik , Roubir Riad Andrawes , Lauren Bell , Jacob Manafo , Emmeline Meens Miller , Winnie Sun , Michael Widener , Shilpa Dogra","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We aimed to understand whether neighbourhood characteristics are associated with movement and social behaviors using walking interviews with 28 community-dwelling older adults (aged 65+). Results indicated support for each component and each relationship in our proposed “Living Environments and Active Aging Framework”. Additional themes such as neighbourhoods with children, moving to neighbourhoods with opportunities for social activity and movement, and lingering effects of pandemic closures provided novel insights into the relationship between the living environment (neighbourhood) and active aging. Future work exploring sex and gender effects on these relationships, and work with equity-deserving groups is needed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103339"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141978599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103336
Sho Takeda , Maho Haseda , Koryu Sato , Koichiro Shiba , Atsushi Nakagomi , Kazushige Ide , Naoki Kondo
{"title":"Community-level social capital and subsequent health and well-being among older adults in Japan: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach","authors":"Sho Takeda , Maho Haseda , Koryu Sato , Koichiro Shiba , Atsushi Nakagomi , Kazushige Ide , Naoki Kondo","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103336","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is inconsistent evidence on the association between community-level social capital and the health or well-being of older adults. This study examined the association between community-level social capital and multidimensional health and well-being outcomes using an outcome-wide approach. We used data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide cohort study of Japanese older adults (analytic samples: 47,227 for outcomes obtained from the long-term care insurance registry and 34,183 for other outcomes). We assessed three aspects of school-district-level community social capital in 2016 (civic participation, social cohesion, and reciprocity) and 41 subsequent health and well-being outcomes through 2019. We performed either a modified multilevel Poisson regression or a multilevel logistic regression analysis. We adjusted for pre-baseline characteristics, prior outcome values, and individual-level social capital from the 2013 wave. Even after Bonferroni correction, we found that community-level social capital was associated with some subsequent social well-being and physical/cognitive health. For example, community-level reciprocity was associated with a higher prevalence of taking a social role (Prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.03, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02, 1.04) and undergoing health screening (PR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.04). There was modest evidence that community-level civic participation was associated with a higher competency of intellectual activity (PR = 1.01, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.02) and community-level social cohesion was associated with a reduced onset of functional disability (PR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.90, 0.98). Community-level social capital may promote social well-being and some physical/cognitive health outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103336"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829224001643/pdfft?md5=c6f7afa5a559f53c748dce1fea639ba8&pid=1-s2.0-S1353829224001643-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint associations of neighbourhood walkability and greenery with walking among middle-aged and older adults: Findings from diverse urban settings in Australia","authors":"Manoj Chandrabose , Nyssa Hadgraft , Neville Owen , Suzanne Mavoa , Takemi Sugiyama","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103334","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103334","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is evidence that neighbourhood walkability and greenery are associated with walking, but less is known about their joint associations. We investigated this using data from the AusDiab3 study (2011/12) with 3032 adults (mean age 60 years). Two-level logistic regression models were used with binary walking outcomes. There was an inverse relationship (r = −0.5) between walkability (a composite measure of residential, destinations and intersections densities) and greenery (the size of densely vegetated areas). However, both walkability and greenery were independently positively associated with odds of walking. Regarding joint associations, in low-walkability neighbourhoods, greenery was positively associated with walking. In high-walkability neighbourhoods, greenery was not associated with walking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103334"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382922400162X/pdfft?md5=a9a62805b9434c341d580e7bddb555d4&pid=1-s2.0-S135382922400162X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141899232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103320
Abhery Das , Theresa L. Osypuk , Paul Y. Yoo , Katherine Magnuson , Lisa A. Gennetian , Kimberly G. Noble , Tim A. Bruckner
{"title":"Poverty reduction and childhood opportunity moves: A randomized trial of cash transfers to low-income U.S. families with infants","authors":"Abhery Das , Theresa L. Osypuk , Paul Y. Yoo , Katherine Magnuson , Lisa A. Gennetian , Kimberly G. Noble , Tim A. Bruckner","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Black and Hispanic children have a higher likelihood of experiencing neighborhood poverty than white children. This study uses data from the Baby's First Years (BFY) randomized trial to examine whether an unconditional cash transfer causes families to make opportunity moves to better quality neighborhoods. We use Intent to Treat linear regression models to test whether the BFY treatment, of receiving $333/month (vs. $20/month) for three years, leads to moves to neighborhoods of greater childhood opportunity. Overall, we find no relation between the BFY treatment and neighborhood opportunity across time. However, we find effect modification by maternal baseline health. High-cash receipt among mothers with poor health at baseline corresponds with moves to neighborhoods of greater childhood opportunity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103320"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health & PlacePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103328
Andrew C. Stevenson , Tom Clemens , Erola Pairo-Castineira , David J. Webb , Richard B. Weller , Chris Dibben
{"title":"Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality: An analysis of data from the UK biobank cohort study","authors":"Andrew C. Stevenson , Tom Clemens , Erola Pairo-Castineira , David J. Webb , Richard B. Weller , Chris Dibben","doi":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We aimed to examine associations between ultraviolet (UV) exposure and mortality among older adults in the United Kingdom (UK). We used data from UK Biobank participants with two UV exposures, validated with measured vitamin D levels: solarium use and annual average residential shortwave radiation. Associations between the UV exposures, all-cause and cause-specific mortality were examined as adjusted hazard ratios. The UV exposures were inversely associated with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality. Solarium users were also at a lower risk of non-CVD/non-cancer mortality. The benefits of UV exposure may outweigh the risks in low-sunlight countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49302,"journal":{"name":"Health & Place","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 103328"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829224001564/pdfft?md5=0cec84680d8a8d6fe2460f0fdf112a47&pid=1-s2.0-S1353829224001564-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141879975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}