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.
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.
Compactness level urban areas have different health related outcomes during COVID-19.
By reviewing the studies on the cities in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, we could develop a promising perspective for identifying solutions during future similar pandemics.
Our ‘adaptive bubble strategy’ illustrates how older adults protect themselves from virus transmission and maintain healthy living activities and psychological wellbeing with the support of the built environment during COVID-19.
The psychological impact of social distancing order during the COVID-19 pandemic can be determined by combining the effects of both individual and community capacities. This study supports the need to improve the physical environment to implement more sustainable health policies in different communities and cities across the world.
Our Jerusalem Railway Park study addressed the needs of those aged 55 in disparate communities, with long-term implications for physical and mental health, and community
Health arguments are rarely used to justify urban policies in Latin America. A new urban health study suggests we can and should do better connecting