Built and Social Environmental Factors and Health and Wellbeing
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 7938
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Several studies have linked built environmental factors with health behaviour, health outcomes, and wellbeing, which has led to urban design concepts such as ‘liveability’ and ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’. However, limitations and gaps exist in the current literature. For example, the importance of built environment factors in relation to health and wellbeing may vary according to other environmental factors (built and or social), as well as individual factors, and more studies are needed to understand such variation in effects. In addition, a few studies have empirically assessed pathways linking environmental factors to outcomes, focusing on environments beyond the residential (e.g., workplace, transit corridors, and activity spaces), improvements in standard methods to operationalise environmental exposures or their effects, or the incorporation of knowledge translation and real-world impacts.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect studies reporting on the relationships between built and social environmental factors and health and wellbeing, with a focus on addressing the above points. This includes a focus on studies assessing mediating and moderating factors, studies on advances in data capture/expression such as the incorporation of technology for capture of measures, and studies with findings that can directly inform urban redesign/renewal or with clear policy implications.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Pathways between built/social environmental factors and health/wellbeing (i.e., mediation);
- Effect modification (by individual or environmental factors) of associations between environmental factors and health/wellbeing;
- Novel and/or improved data collection approaches (e.g., use of GPS, wearables, phone apps, activity spaces etc.);
- Studies that incorporate real-world impact or have clear potential for real-world impact.
Dr. Suzanne J. Carroll
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- built environment
- liveability
- urban form
- social environment
- health
- wellbeing
- mediation
- effect modification
- urban renewal
- urban design
- policy
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