Turcu, C;
Crane, M;
Hutchinson, E;
Lloyd, S;
Belesova, K;
Wilkinson, P;
Davies, M;
(2021)
A multi-scalar perspective on health and urban housing: an umbrella review.
Buildings and Cities
, 2
(1)
pp. 734-758.
10.5334/bc.119.
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Abstract
With more than half the world’s population living in cities, understanding how the built environment impacts human health at different urban scales is crucial. To be able to shape cities for health, an understanding is needed of planetary health impacts, which encompass the human health impacts of human-caused disruptions on the Earth’s natural ecosystems. This umbrella review maps health evidence across the spatial scales of the built environment (building; neighbourhood; and wider system, including city, regional and planetary levels), with a specific focus on urban housing. Systematic reviews published in English between January 2011 and December 2020 were searched across 20 databases, with 1176 articles identified and 124 articles screened for inclusion. Findings suggests that most evidence reports on health determinants at the neighbourhood level, such as greenspace, physical and socio-economic conditions, transport infrastructure and access to local services. Physical health outcomes are also primarily reported, with an emerging interest in mental health outcomes. There is little evidence on planetary health outcomes and significant gaps in the research literature are identified. Based on these findings, three potential directions are identified for future research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A multi-scalar perspective on health and urban housing: an umbrella review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/bc.119 |
| Publisher version: | https:// doi.org/10.5334/bc.119 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Building, built environment, environmental health, health, housing, mental health, meta-analysis, neighbourhood, urban |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134288 |
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