Urban Health Indicator Tools of the Physical Environment: a Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Urban health indicator (UHI) tools provide evidence about the health impacts of the physical urban environment which can be used in built environment policy and decision-making. Where UHI tools provide data at the neighborhood (and lower) scale they can provide valuable information about health inequalities and environmental deprivation. This review performs a census of UHI tools and explores their nature and characteristics (including how they represent, simplify or address complex systems) to increase understanding of their potential use by municipal built environment policy and decision-makers. We searched seven bibliographic databases, four key journals and six practitioner websites and conducted Google searches between January 27, 2016 and February 24, 2016 for UHI tools. We extracted

SUBMITTER: Pineo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181826 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature