How could 20-minute neighbourhoods impact health and health inequalities? A policy scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

'Twenty-minute neighbourhoods' (or variations, such as 15-minute cities) are receiving increasing policy attention with anticipated impacts on population health (inequalities) outcomes alongside sustainability improvements. Yet, factors contributing to possible health impacts are not well understood. This scoping review aimed to identify proposed and evidenced pathways to health (inequality) outcomes from international policy plans.

Methods

We first identified relevant academic literature, searching Scopus, (Ovid) Medline and Embase databases. A second search aimed to identify local or national planning or policy documents on government websites and related organisations. We followed a snowball search strategy to retrieve examples identified from the academic lite

SUBMITTER: Pollack R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653922 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature