More than clean air and tranquillity: Residential green is independently associated with decreasing mortality

Environment International

Volumn 108, Issue , 2017, Pages 176-184

  Vienneau, Danielle ^a,b   de Hoogh, Kees ^a,b   Faeh, David ^c   Kaufmann, Marco ^c   Wunderli, Jean Marc ^d   Röösli, Martin ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Exposure; Green space; Greenness; Mortality; Noise

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; ECONOMICS; HAZARDS; LAND USE; NOISE POLLUTION;

EXPOSURE; GREEN SPACES; GREENNESS; MORTALITY; NOISE;

HOUSING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GREENSPACE; MORTALITY RISK; NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL GREEN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; WORK; ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; LAND USE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATIONAL PARK; TRAFFIC NOISE;

SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORESTS; GARDENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85028371001     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.08.012     Document Type: Article

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