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Author Archives: Built Environment and Health
The CDC and DoT’s Transportation and Health Tool
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Transportation just released the new Transportation and Health Tool, which provides easy access to data that examines the health impacts of transportation systems. The Transportation and Health Tool provides data … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Transportation
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Tree Canopy Data for the Entire State of Pennsylvania
Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne at the University of Vermont just announced the release of a statewide, high-resolution tree canopy dataset for Pennsylvania. The resolution of the data is 1 m which makes it 900 times more detailed than the National Land Cover … Continue reading
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Strategies to Refine Annual Business Establishment Data across More than Two Decades
Analyses of place and health have been largely cross-sectional, and new challenges are faced as we wrangle longitudinal geographic data. Our group just published a manuscript detailing our work to clean and code data on all NYC metropolitan area businesses … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Food Environment, Methods
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CDC Releases New Built Environment Assessment Tool
The CDC released a new direct systematic observation data collection instrument for measuring the core features and quality of the built environment related to behaviors that affect health, especially behaviors such as walking, biking, and other types of physical activity. The … Continue reading
Posted in Community Needs Assessment, Methods, Walkability
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Systematic Review of Literature on Neighborhood Park Access and Physical Activity
Providing neighborhood access to clean, safe and engaging park spaces is a strategy being adopted by many communities to promote physical activity. We just published a systematic review of the literature assessing the link between park access and physical activity. … Continue reading
Posted in Parks, Systematic Review
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Mailman School’s Social Epidemiology Cluster launches a Blog
The Social Epidemiology Cluster is one of the six thematic units within the Mailman School of Public Health‘s Department of Epidemiology and is home to BEH members Andrew Rundle and Gina Lovasi. The Cluster has just launched a blog that will … Continue reading
Posted in Social Determinants
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Neighborhood Safety and Physical Activity
Would you go for a walk around the block or in a local park if you thought your neighborhood unsafe and you would be in danger? At BEH, we care a lot about understanding constraints on outdoor physical activity, including … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Physical Disorder, Safety
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Spatial Patterns of Exposure to Tree Pollen in Cities
BEH investigator Gina Lovasi has recently worked with colleagues from Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) on a systematic review of how tree pollen levels vary spatially within cities (available at http://www.isa-arbor.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=963). This review is part of our larger effort to inform refinement … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Forestry
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A SMART START: A Symposium on Preventing Childhood Obesity
On April 16th the Mailman School is presenting an afternoon long symposium, “A SMART START: A Symposium on Preventing Childhood Obesity“, focused on prenatal and early childhood determinants of obesity. This symposium is part of a month long series of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood
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NE-WAS: Welcoming Big Data to the Neighborhood
Like most researchers investigating neighborhood determinants of health, we are excited that both government and the private sector are making more and more spatially located data available. But even as new data sources allow us to characterize study subjects’ environments … Continue reading
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