ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2015
Nature-Based Strategies for Improving Urban Health and Safety.
Review in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Nature's Role in Outdoor Therapies: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Greening Vacant Land on Mental Health of Community-Dwelling Adults: A Cluster Randomized Trial.JAMA network open · 2018Trial
- Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Trial
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- Nature as medicine: The case for prescribing outdoor time.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026Article
- Connecting with nature to mitigate toxic stress: an exploratory study of pediatric provider perceptions.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Firearm injury and young children: a critical review.BMC pediatrics · 2025Review
- Examining associations between street vegetation and child firearm violence at microgeographic locations in 3 US cities: a case-control study.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Urban Microclimates and Their Relationship with Social Isolation: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Exploring Climate and Air Pollution Mitigating Benefits of Urban Parks in Sao Paulo Through a Pollution Sensor Network.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors by state in the USA, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Lancet (London, England) · 2024Article
- The Dynamic Relationship between Social Cohesion and Urban Green Space in Diverse Communities: Opportunities and Challenges to Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Place-Based Strategies Addressing Neighborhood Environments to Improve Perinatal and Preterm Infant Outcomes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- In situ psycho-cognitive assessments support self-determined urban green exercise time.Urban forestry & urban greening · 2023Article
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- Bibliometric Analysis of Nature-Based Therapy Research.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Green Spaces with Fewer People Improve Self-Reported Affective Experience and Mood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Aging in the Right Place for Older Adults Experiencing Housing Insecurity: An Environmental Assessment of Temporary Housing Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Usage behavior and health benefit perception of youth in urban parks: A case study from Qingdao, China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Cardiovascular Health Among US Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups.Current epidemiology reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
Place-based programs are being noticed as key opportunities to prevent disease and promote public health and safety for populations at-large. As one key type of place-based intervention, nature-based and green space strategies can play an especially large role in improving health and safety for dwellers in urban environments such as US legacy cities that lack nature and greenery. In this paper, we describe the current understanding of place-based influences on public health and safety. We focus on nonchemical environmental factors, many of which are related to urban abandonment and blight. We then review findings from studies of nature-based interventions regarding impacts on health, perceptions of safety, and crime. Based on our findings, we suggest that further research in this area will require (1) refined measures of green space, nature, and health and safety for cities, (2) interdisciplinary science and cross-sector policy collaboration, (3) observational studies as well as randomized controlled experiments and natural experiments using appropriate spatial counterfactuals and mixed methods, and (4) return-on-investment calculations of potential economic, social, and health costs and benefits of urban greening initiatives.
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