Fengrui Jing , Wenjun Ma , Zhenlong Li , Shuli Zhou , Yongjian Ruan , Guanhao He , Jianxiong Hu , Tao Liu
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The exposure-response relationship derived from XGBoost-SHAP analysis shows that increasing park visits reduces asthma risk, but the protective effect plateaus when visits exceed 51.94 per year. Stratified by park visits, the second, third, and fourth quartiles of nature park visits were associated with a reduction in high asthma risk by 29 % (OR: 0.71, 95 % CI: 0.67–0.75), 46 % (OR: 0.54, 95 % CI: 0.51–0.57), and 65 % (OR: 0.35, 95 % CI: 0.33–0.37), respectively, compared to the first quartile. We further observed significant additive interactions between nature park visits and environmental factors on asthma risk, with high NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) reducing asthma risk (AP = −0.1, 95 % CI: −0.19 to −0.01), while high urban heat island index (UHI) (AP = 0.56, 95 % CI: 0.49 to 0.64) and high PM2.5 levels (AP = 0.24, 95 % CI: 0.15 to 0.32) increased asthma risk. These findings highlight the importance of mobility-informed measures of nature park use, identify non-linear saturation effects, and demonstrate interactions with urban environmental stressors. Policymakers and urban planners should integrate human mobility patterns, environmental contexts, and equity considerations into greenspace strategies to effectively mitigate asthma risk and enhance respiratory health in urban settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106301"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Nationwide analysis of the association between nature park visits and adult asthma risk in urbanized neighborhoods\",\"authors\":\"Fengrui Jing , Wenjun Ma , Zhenlong Li , Shuli Zhou , Yongjian Ruan , Guanhao He , Jianxiong Hu , Tao Liu\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106301\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><div>Evidence linking greenspace to asthma remains mixed, largely because prior studies infer exposure from static land-cover maps rather than where people actually spend time. 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Nationwide analysis of the association between nature park visits and adult asthma risk in urbanized neighborhoods
Evidence linking greenspace to asthma remains mixed, largely because prior studies infer exposure from static land-cover maps rather than where people actually spend time. Here, we bridge that gap, conducting the first nationwide analysis to translate passively collected GPS traces into an “actual-use” nature park metric. This study used millions of visit records to 127,752 nature parks across the contiguous United States based on a large-scale dataset from GPS-enabled mobile devices to investigate the associations between nature park visits and adult asthma risk at the neighborhood level in urbanized areas. The exposure-response relationship derived from XGBoost-SHAP analysis shows that increasing park visits reduces asthma risk, but the protective effect plateaus when visits exceed 51.94 per year. Stratified by park visits, the second, third, and fourth quartiles of nature park visits were associated with a reduction in high asthma risk by 29 % (OR: 0.71, 95 % CI: 0.67–0.75), 46 % (OR: 0.54, 95 % CI: 0.51–0.57), and 65 % (OR: 0.35, 95 % CI: 0.33–0.37), respectively, compared to the first quartile. We further observed significant additive interactions between nature park visits and environmental factors on asthma risk, with high NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) reducing asthma risk (AP = −0.1, 95 % CI: −0.19 to −0.01), while high urban heat island index (UHI) (AP = 0.56, 95 % CI: 0.49 to 0.64) and high PM2.5 levels (AP = 0.24, 95 % CI: 0.15 to 0.32) increased asthma risk. These findings highlight the importance of mobility-informed measures of nature park use, identify non-linear saturation effects, and demonstrate interactions with urban environmental stressors. Policymakers and urban planners should integrate human mobility patterns, environmental contexts, and equity considerations into greenspace strategies to effectively mitigate asthma risk and enhance respiratory health in urban settings.
期刊介绍:
Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.