Do low-income neighbourhoods have the least green space? A cross-sectional study of Australia's most populous cities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Astell Burt, Thomas ^a,b   Feng, Xiaoqi ^a   Mavoa, Suzanne ^c   Badland, Hannah M ^c   Giles Corti, Billie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Environment; Green space; Health; Income; Inequity; Neighbourhood; Public open space

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; PLANT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLANTS; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84899678707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-292     Document Type: Article

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