ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2012
Community severance and health: what do we actually know?
Review in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review with Framework Synthesis of the Ways That Urban Environments Influence Opportunities for Healthy and Sustainable Mobility in Older Age.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Community severance and mental health-related hospital visits in New York City.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities.BMJ open · 2024Article
- How much behaviour change is required for the investment in cycling infrastructure to be sustainable? A break-even analysis.PloS one · 2023Article
- Selected Research Issues of Urban Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Editorial-Introduction special issue transport & health in Latin America.Journal of transport & health · 2020Article
- Local walking and cycling by residents living near urban motorways: cross-sectional analysis.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: Implications for health and well-being.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Measuring the impact of spatial network layout on community social cohesion: a cross-sectional study.International journal of health geographics · 2014Article
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Abstract
Community severance occurs where road traffic (speed or volume) inhibits access to goods, services, or people. Appleyard and Lintell's seminal study of residents of three urban streets in San Francisco found an inverse relationship between traffic and social contacts. The extent of social networks predicts unhealthy behaviors, poor health, and mortality; high rather than low social integration is associated with reduced mortality, with an effect size of similar magnitude to stopping smoking. Although community severance diminishes social contacts, the implications of community severance for morbidity and mortality have not been empirically established. Based on a systematic literature search, we discuss what is actually known about community severance. There is empirical evidence that traffic speed and volume reduces physical activity, social contacts, children's play, and access to goods and services. However, no studies have investigated mental or physical health outcomes in relation to community severance. While not designed specifically to do so, recent developments in road design may also ameliorate community severance.
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