ReviewPreventive medicine reports2015
From built environment to health inequalities: An explanatory framework based on evidence.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Exploring Family Typologies and Health Outcomes in a Dutch Primary Care Population of Children Living in Urban Cities in the Netherlands: A Latent Class Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Cross-cultural differences in weight loss maintenance: a comparison between North America and Europe.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Assessing Equitable Implementation of a Social Care Initiative Integrating Medical and Social Services for Medicaid Members.Health services research · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic disadvantage and polygenic risk of overweight in early and mid-life: a longitudinal population cohort study spanning 12 years.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
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- [Primary Care Inequalities to the Disadvantage of the Population of Socially Deprived Urban Areas: A Case Study of Essen, Germany].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2023Article
- [Readiness for Implementation of Prevention and Health Promotion Measures for People in Difficult Living Situations in Deprived Municipalities in Bavaria: A Qualitative Analysis].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2023Article
- Associations of the Neighborhood Built Environment with Gestational Weight Gain.American journal of perinatology · 2023Article
- Towards healthy urbanism: inclusive, equitable and sustainable (THRIVES) - an urban design and planning framework from theory to praxis.Cities & health · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic disparities in outdoor branded advertising in San Francisco and Oakland, California.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe Health in All Policies strategy aims to engage every policy domain in health promotion. The more socially disadvantaged groups are usually more affected by potential negative impacts of policies if they are not health oriented. The built environment represents an important policy domain and, apart from its housing component, its impact on health inequalities is seldom assessed.
methodsA scoping review of evidence on the built environment and its health equity impact was carried out, searching both urban and medical literature since 2000 analysing socio-economic inequalities in relation to different components of the built environment.
resultsThe proposed explanatory framework assumes that key features of built environment (identified as density, functional mix and public spaces and services), may influence individual health through their impact on both natural environment and social context, as well as behaviours, and that these effects may be unequally distributed according to the social position of individuals.
conclusionIn general, the expected links proposed by the framework are well documented in the literature; however, evidence of their impact on health inequalities remains uncertain due to confounding factors, heterogeneity in study design, and difficulty to generalize evidence that is still very embedded to local contexts.
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