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Urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health-new concepts, methods and tools to improve health in cities

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, March 2016
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Title
Urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health-new concepts, methods and tools to improve health in cities
Published in
Environmental Health, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12940-016-0108-1
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Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen

Abstract

The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also a main source of pollution and disease. We conducted a review around the topic urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health and describe the findings. Within cities there is considerable variation in the levels of environmental exposures such as air pollution, noise, temperature and green space. Emerging evidence suggests that urban and transport planning indicators such as road network, distance to major roads, and traffic density, household density, industry and natural and green space explain a large proportion of the variability. Personal behavior including mobility adds further variability to personal exposures, determines variability in green space and UV exposure, and can provide increased levels of physical activity. Air pollution, noise and temperature have been associated with adverse health effects including increased morbidity and premature mortality, UV and green space with both positive and negative health effects and physical activity with many health benefits. In many cities there is still scope for further improvement in environmental quality through targeted policies. Making cities 'green and healthy' goes far beyond simply reducing CO2 emissions. Environmental factors are highly modifiable, and environmental interventions at the community level, such as urban and transport planning, have been shown to be promising and more cost effective than interventions at the individual level. However, the urban environment is a complex interlinked system. Decision-makers need not only better data on the complexity of factors in environmental and developmental processes affecting human health, but also enhanced understanding of the linkages to be able to know at which level to target their actions. New research tools, methods and paradigms such as geographical information systems, smartphones, and other GPS devices, small sensors to measure environmental exposures, remote sensing and the exposome paradigm together with citizens observatories and science and health impact assessment can now provide this information. While in cities there are often silos of urban planning, mobility and transport, parks and green space, environmental department, (public) health department that do not work together well enough, multi-sectorial approaches are needed to tackle the environmental problems. The city of the future needs to be a green city, a social city, an active city, a healthy city.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 618 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 108 17%
Student > Master 103 17%
Researcher 99 16%
Student > Bachelor 52 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 3%
Other 81 13%
Unknown 160 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 84 13%
Social Sciences 58 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 57 9%
Engineering 51 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 4%
Other 146 23%
Unknown 204 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 March 2019.
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#1,863,509
of 24,891,087 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Health
#379
of 1,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,801
of 305,433 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#11
of 40 outputs
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