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A Review of the Health Benefits of Greenness
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Researchers are increasingly exploring how neighborhood greenness, or vegetation, may affect health behaviors and outcomes. Greenness may influence health by promoting physical activity and social contact; decreasing stress; and mitigating air pollution, noise, and heat exposure. Greenness is generally measured using satellite-based vegetation indices or land-use databases linked to participants’ addresses. In this review, we found fairly strong evidence for a positive association between greenness and physical activity and a less consistent negative association between greenness and body weight. Research suggests greenness is protective against adverse mental health outcomes, cardiovascular disease, and mortality, though most studies were limited by cross-sectional or ecological design. There is consistent evidence that greenness exposure during pregnancy is positively associated with birth weight, though findings for other birth outcomes are less conclusive. Future research should follow subjects prospectively, differentiate between greenness quantity and quality, and identify mediators and effect modifiers of greenness-health associations.
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- Authors
- James, P., Banay, R. F., Hart, J. E., & Laden, F.
- Venue
- Current Epidemiology Reports
- Published
- 2015-04-09
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 131-142
- ISSN
- 2196-2995 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2007790091
- Cited by
- 985
- References
- 88
- FWCI
- 25.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2015-06-25)
- Open access
- bronze
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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