Access to urban green spaces and behavioural problems in children: Results from the GINIplus and LISAplus studies

Environment International

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-35

  Markevych, Iana ^a,b   Tiesler, Carla M T ^a,c   Fuertes, Elaine ^a,d   Romanos, Marcel ^e   Dadvand, Payam ^f,g   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^f,g   Berdel, Dietrich ^h   Koletzko, Sibylle ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^g CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^h MARIEN HOSPITAL WESEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural problems; Child health; Green space; Greenness; Mental health; Strengths and difficulties questionnaire

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS; GREEN SPACES; GREENNESS; MENTAL HEALTH; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE;

URBAN PLANNING;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHILD HEALTH; GREENSPACE; MENTAL HEALTH; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOREST; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; URBAN GREEN SPACE;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH;

BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS; CHILD HEALTH; GREEN SPACE; GREENNESS; MENTAL HEALTH; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84902652826     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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