Health impacts of the built environment: Within-urban variability in physical inactivity, air pollution, and ischemic heart disease mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-253

  Hankey, Steve ^a   Marshall, Julian D ^a   Brauer, Michael ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active travel; Air quality; Environmental planning; Infill; Risk assessment; Urban form

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAND USE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD WALKABILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856747198     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103806     Document Type: Article

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