Residential exposure to visible blue space (but not green space) associated with lower psychological distress in a capital city

Health and Place

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-78

  Nutsford, Daniel ^a   Pearson, Amber L ^b,c   Kingham, Simon ^a   Reitsma, Femke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Blue space; Green space; Mental health; Urban planning; Visibility analysis

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; SPACE USE; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUE SPACE VISIBILITY; CITY PLANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GREEN SPACE VISIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; KESSLER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS SCALE; LAND USE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; URBANIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; RECREATIONAL PARK; RIVER; SEA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RIVERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84960904545     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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