We are witnessing changes in the ways we use our cities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The livability of our local neighborhoods has never been more important.
Apr 22, 2020
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A network of makeshift barriers has kept residents walled in their neighbourhoods for weeks in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 19, 2020
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In the high-impact journal Appetite the UPV/EHU's Nursing and Health Promotion research group has published a study using photovoice methodology and which qualitatively compares citizens' perceptions about the food environment ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Current rates of emergency department visits due to asthma are around 2.4 times higher in areas that were redlined—deprioritised for mortgage investment—in the 1930s, than in areas rated as the least risky investments ...
Jan 28, 2020
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More children are overweight or obese nowadays because they don't get enough exercise, it is often claimed. One of the UK government's goals in the Childhood Obesity Plan is to increase the number of children who walk to ...
Jan 20, 2020
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Women who spend longer periods of their early lives in less affluent neighbourhoods are at greater risk of experiencing violence during their early adulthoods at the hands of their intimate partners, finds a new study published ...
Nov 21, 2019
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A study led by researchers from St. Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and ICES found that people living in neighbourhoods considered to be the least walkable were up to 33 per cent more likely to have a high predicted ...
Oct 31, 2019
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We know that our environment affects our health. More specifically, it's understood that exposure to pollution and access to medical care play important supporting roles in maintaining health and wellness. A new in-depth ...
Aug 15, 2019
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A new study shows that living or moving to a neighbourhood with a higher socioeconomic status is clearly associated with better adherence to dietary recommendations. Researchers studied the connection between neighbourhoods' ...
Dec 11, 2018
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Good emotional health as a child lays the foundation for good life satisfaction in adulthood. However, in the UK children and young people's happiness with their life is now at its lowest since 2010.
Nov 13, 2018
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