A natural experiment to assess how urban interventions in lower socioeconomic areas influence health behaviors: the UrbASante study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mechanisms underlying the associations between changes in the urban environment and changes in health-related outcomes are complex and their study requires specific approaches. We describe the protocol of the interdisciplinary UrbASanté study, which aims to explore how urban interventions can modify environmental exposures (built, social, and food environments; air quality; noise), health-related behaviors, and self-reported health using a natural experiment approach.

Methods

The study is based on a natural experiment design using a before/after protocol with a control group to assess changes in environmental exposures, health-risk behaviors, and self-reported health outcomes of a resident adult population before and after the implementation of a time series of ur

SUBMITTER: Charreire H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015725 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature