Developing the Health Effect Assessment of Landscape (HEAL) Tool: Assessing the Health Effects of Community Greenspace Morphology Design on Non-Communicable Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood greenspace benefits health, yet few tools are available for estimating the health consequences of community greenspace design alternatives, especially prior to the implementation of a landscape design plan. Herein we present a machine learning based tool for predicting the prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on landscape design maps at the community scale. We achieve this based on data collected in five major metropolises in the United States. By using high-resolution satellite imagery and remote sensing technologies, landscape spatial design characteristics were extracted through spatial pattern analysis, allowing the measurement of verdancy, fragmentation, connectedness, aggregation, and shape of greenspaces. We established a model to estimate the prevalence of poo

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12705061 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature