Protocol for a meta-narrative review on research paradigms addressing the urban built environment and human health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urban health is a field of research and practice that has attracted the interest of various disciplines. While it is encouraged for diverse disciplines to contribute to a multidisciplinary field of study such as urban health, this often results in tensions, conflicts or competition between the different traditions that stem from different epistemological backgrounds. This meta-narrative review aims to identify and describe the multiple paradigms and articulate the underlying epistemological, ontological, methodological, and aetiological differences in their approaches. Articulating the paradigms not only contributes to the advancement of research, but also provides a framework for understanding the different policy beliefs and ideas policy actors hold and apply in the po

SUBMITTER: Kim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665591 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature