Green Space and Health Equity: A Systematic Review on the Potential of Green Space to Reduce Health Disparities.

ABSTRACT: Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier and white people. Such health disparities are a major public health issue in several countries around the world. In this systematic review, we examine whether green space shows stronger associations with physical health for disadvantaged groups than for privileged groups. We hypothesize that disadvantaged groups have stronger protective effects from green space because of their greater dependency on proximate green space, as they tend to lack access to other health-promoting resources. We use the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method and search five databases (CINAHL, Coc

SUBMITTER: Rigolon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7967323 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature