Moving to greener pastures: Health selection into neighborhood green space among a highly mobile and diverse population in California.

ABSTRACT: Global urbanization has sparked substantial environmental, public health, and social science research on the importance of conserving and propagating natural environments. A large subset of this work focuses on the benefits of green space for health. An often-overlooked methodological concern when examining relations between green space and health, however, involves residential self-selection. The selective movement of individuals into greener neighborhoods on the basis of preexisting health and correlated social factors may bias associations, particularly in cross-sectional studies, which predominate existing green space/health research. To quantify the extent of residential self-selection bias, this study used a longitudinal sibling comparison design with repeated individual and neighbor

SUBMITTER: Gailey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10224763 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature