Deep and persistent racism, segregation, disinvestment and devaluation have created chasms in health equity, economic mobility and overall outcomes for…
Access to green space in cities improves the lives and health of residents. WHO’s rule of thumb is that urban…
Tracking the development of the Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI), a partnership that spans more than 200 organizations across the…
Spending between 2-5 hours/week in the natural environment contributes to good health and well-being.
While most research focuses on the relationship between green space or “nature” and public health, this analysis drills down to…
A team of scientists, including researchers at the USDA Philadelphia Field Station, projected the impact on mortality if Philadelphia reaches…
A rigorous study of green space and heat-related deaths in Ho Chi Minh City suggests that every 1-square kilometer increase in…
Howard Frumkin, noted physician and public health leader, published this early compendium of the health impacts of built and natural…
A landmark study in 1984 studies the length of hospital stays among patients who received the same type of surgery…
Children’s screen time is continuing to increase as more and more children are given access to mobile phones. This raises…
Though focused on health, the strategies and approaches suggested would apply to any type of neighborhood engagement. Panelists included both…
Excessive heat events are particularly dangerous and can result in above-average rates of mortality, excessive heat exposure contributed to more…
Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that heat and makes it worse.…
The science is clear: breathing polluted air increases the risk of debilitating and deadly diseases such as lung cancer, stroke,…
Integrated studies of tree effects on air pollution reveal that management of urban tree canopy cover could be a viable…
Harvard School of Public Health researchers offer one of the first controlled longitudinal studies of how living in or near…