ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016
The Built Environment and Child Health: An Overview of Current Evidence.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review on the relationship between the built environment and children's quality of life.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- School-Based Interventions to Support Healthy Indoor and Outdoor Environments for Children: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Access to bike lanes and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- The Urban Exposome during Pregnancy and Its Socioeconomic Determinants.Environmental health perspectives · 2018Pooled it
- Exposure to Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances and Health Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiologic Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- Multi-use physical activity trails in an urban setting and cardiovascular disease: a difference-in-differences analysis of a natural experiment in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Disparities of children's obesogenic environments in Louisiana.International journal of health geographics · 2026Article
- Neighborhood playability and early childhood development: a population-based birth cohort study.Environmental research · 2026Article
- Changing landscape of physical fitness and urban-rural inequalities: evidence from 1.2 million children and adolescents over 20 years of urbanization.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- The Impact of Psychoactive Substance Use and Adolescent Mothers on Early Childhood Development in Mexico: An Observational Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Association between early childhood outdoor activity and anxiety symptoms in preschoolers.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Spatial Associations of Alcohol Outlet Density with Neighborhood Crime and Child Opportunity: A Hierarchical Bayesian Ecological Study.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Association of Maternal Air Pollution Exposure and Infant Lung Function Is Modified by Genetic Propensity to Oxidative Stress.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Health-Related and Learning Performance Effects of Air Pollution and Other Urban-Related Environmental Factors on School-Age Children and Adolescents-A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews.Current environmental health reports · 2024Article
- The impact of indoor air pollution on children's health and well-being: the experts' consensus.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Modifying urban planning to promote child health: A scoping review of reviews.Health promotion perspectives · 2024Review
- Relative risks of childhood developmental vulnerabilities in three Australian communities with exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: data linkage study.International journal of population data science · 2024Article
- Obesogenic neighborhood environment is associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children: could the mother's BMI be a mediating factor?Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Air pollution and fecundability in a North American preconception cohort study.Environment international · 2023Article
- Characteristics of the obesogenic environment around schools are associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Urbanization and the shaping of the built environment have provided a number of socioeconomic benefits, but they have also brought unwanted side effects on health. We aimed to review the current epidemiological evidence of the associations between the built environment, closely related exposures, and child health. We focused on growth and obesity, neuropsychological development, and respiratory and immune health. We used existing review articles and supplemented these with relevant work published and not included in existing reviews. The present review shows that there is good evidence for an association between air pollution and fetal growth restriction and respiratory health, whereas for other exposure and outcome combinations, further evidence is needed. Future studies should make efforts to integrate the different built environment features and to include the evaluation of environments other than home, as well as accessibility, qualitative and perception assessment of the built environment, and, if possible, with improved and standardized tools to facilitate comparability between studies. Efforts are also needed to conduct longitudinal and intervention studies and to understand potential mechanisms behind the associations observed. Finally, studies in low- and middle-income countries are needed.
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