Residential Surrounding Greenspace and Mental Health in Three Spanish Areas

The importance of greenspace for mental health

There is an urgent global need for accessible and cost-effective pro-mental health infrastructure. Public green spaces were officially designated in the 19th century, informed by a belief that they might provide health benefits. We outline modern research evidence that greenspace can play a pivotal role in population-level mental health.

Mental health and quality of residential environment.

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the proposition that residential environment can affect mental health. AIMS To study the degree to which common mental disorder clusters according to postcode units and households. To investigate whether contextual measures of residential environment quality and geographical accessibility are associated with symptoms of common mental disorder. METH...

Using Residential Sorting Behavior to Better Understand the Relationship Between Urban Greenspace and Health

A recent wave of research in public health finds associations between the proximity of an individual to greenspace and various health outcomes, including obesity, cardiovascular disease rates, depression, and anxiety. Based on these associations, it is sometimes assumed that better access to parks will lead to improved health outcomes. My project addresses this assumption by focusing on an issu...

Difficult Family Relationships, Residential Greenspace, and Childhood Asthma.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Both the social environment and the physical environment are increasingly recognized as important to childhood diseases such as asthma. This study tested a novel hypothesis: that living in areas high in greenspace may help buffer the effects of difficult family relationships for children with asthma. METHODS A total of 150 children (ages 9-17), physician-diagnosed wi...

Effect of Brownfield Redevelopment on Surrounding Residential Areas: the Case of The