Stronger collaboration with inhabitants could ensure more attention on health in spatial plan development.
Implementing community participation in planning of public open spaces is one of the most useful and effective means to encourage a higher sense of community.
Reducing loneliness through nature-based social prescribing: Testing innovations in six cities worldwide and generating evidence to support community-based solutions.
The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The are leading to dire impacts for our health
The foundation is to generate awareness and evidence of existing housing conditions and their health impacts. Then collaborate across sectors and with stakeholders, establish effective enforcement systems, and tackle issues around private rights.
Urban greenness affects people’s physical and mental health. Residential greenness is associated with reductions in cortisol levels after six months in patients with chronic heart failure undergoing rehabilitation.
To create healthy urban places and spaces, public acceptance is key to success.
Seven key urban health policy ideas were found in the planning of Sydney’s Western Parkland City that draw upon different ontological perspectives. This case study prompts policy actors and researchers to reflect on their own assumptions, and others’ underlying assumptions to better understand where and how collaborations should occur.
Canadian youth who had better mental health during the first summer of the pandemic tended to also have more nearly local neighbourhood destinations.
Odour pollution impacts our mental and physical wellbeing without being noticed very often – bad smells can have a negative impact on how we think and feel. Bad odour can affect our work and home environments in a negative way so why don’t we take it more seriously?