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SUBMITTER: James P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500194 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
James Peter P Banay Rachel F RF Hart Jaime E JE Laden Francine F
Current epidemiology reports 20150601 2
Researchers are increasingly exploring how neighborhood greenness, or vegetation, may affect health behaviors and outcomes. Greenness may influence health by promoting physical activity and social contact; decreasing stress; and mitigating air pollution, noise, and heat exposure. Greenness is generally measured using satellite-based vegetation indices or land-use databases linked to participants' addresses. In this review, we found fairly strong evidence for a positive association between greenn ...[more]