ReviewBreathe (Sheffield, England)2023
Greenness exposure: beneficial but multidimensional.
Review in Breathe (Sheffield, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health effects of air pollution on chronic respiratory diseases.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026Review
- Precision greenness exposure is associated with lung cancer risk in medicare beneficiaries.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2026Article
- The association between greenness exposure and arthritis in middle-aged and older Chinese adults, mediated by climate factors.BMC public health · 2026Article
- ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Impacts of environments on school myopia by spatial analysis techniques in Wuhan.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Green space quantity and exposure in relation to the risk of immune-mediated diseases: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Is greenspace in the eye of the beholder? Exploring perceived and objective greenspace exposure effects on mental health.Journal of environmental psychology · 2024Article
- Pregnancy outcomes as related to in utero exposure to air pollution and greenness: The Life-GAP Project.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- The influence of urban trees and total vegetation on asthma development in children.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Climate change, the environment and respiratory disease.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Many studies have shown that greenness has beneficial health effects, particularly on psychological and cardiovascular outcomes. In this narrative review, we provide a synthesis of knowledge regarding greenness exposure and respiratory health. The following outcomes were reviewed: respiratory mortality, lung cancer mortality, lung cancer incidence, respiratory hospitalisations, lung function, COPD, and asthma. We identified 174 articles through a literature search in PubMed, of which 42 were eligible for inclusion in this review. The most common marker for greenness exposure was the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), which was used in 29 out of 42 papers. Other markers used were tree canopy cover, landcover/land-use, plant diversity, density of tall trees and subjectively perceived greenness. We found beneficial effects of greenness in most studies regarding respiratory mortality, lung cancer incidence, respiratory hospitalisations and lung function. For lung cancer mortality, asthma and COPD, the effects of greenness were less clear cut. While many aspects of greenness are beneficial, some aspects may be harmful, and greenness may have different health effects in different population subgroups. Future studies of greenness and respiratory diseases should focus on asthma and COPD, on effects in different population subgroups and on disentangling the health effects of the various greenness dimensions.
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