Health & Place

Papers
(The median citation count of Health & Place is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban neighborhood factors influencing adolescent health and well-being: A qualitative study among adolescent boys in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands154
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales100
‘This is where I can be myself’: places that enable flourishing in older age97
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health81
Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort62
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites61
Inside and outside the neighborhood: Short-term and long-term subjective well-being by geographical context60
COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: Collective emotions and WASH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies57
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians53
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities49
How public open spaces co-construct solitary experiences in densely populated urban environments49
Heatwaves and health vulnerabilities of older informal workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A qualitative study47
Perceived housing inadequacy and health: Cumulative and gendered effects beyond objective housing standards47
Reduction in the use of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health45
Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails44
Examining the geographical distribution of air pollution disparities across different racial and ethnic groups: Incorporating workplace addresses44
Spatial accessibility and equity of residential care facilities in Beijing from 2010 to 202038
“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma38
Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel37
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–202137
Socializing smartly: Differentiated health benefits from online and place-based in-person socialization among older adults in urban China37
Hard-to-reach communities in the rural Ecuador: A qualitative perspective on dietary habits and physical activity35
Child and youth physical activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The changing role of the neighbourhood built and social environments35
Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain34
Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence34
Highs, lows, and fault lines: The geography of suicide clusters in Ecuador34
Labour will progress where māmā feel safe: Constructing birth-place decision making in primary birth centres34
Does work-related and commuting physical activity predict changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the transition to retirement? GPS and accelerometer study34
Built environment in early life is linked to heterogeneous trajectories of loneliness from childhood to adolescence in the ABCD study33
Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study33
Exploring residential relocation– differences between newcomers and settled residents in health, travel behaviour and neighbourhood perceptions33
Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study32
Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A structural equation modeling approach31
Aging in institutions in East Asia: Care poverty pathways among older adults with intellectual disabilities31
Forces at play: A qualitative study of risk aversion, policy and decision making for children's physically active play in schools31
Rapid review on healthy ageing interventions that incorporate action on climate change and sustainability in cities and communities30
Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data30
Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: Evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study29
Whose pollution, whose problem? Understanding perceptions of air pollution and implications for clean cooking (for health) in Nairobi schools29
On the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) in healthcare accessibility measurement via the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method28
An exploratory study of loneliness in migrant-origin communities due to transforming ethnic public spaces28
Rethinking the place of compulsory community mental health treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications of an assemblage theory approach27
The extent of outdoor food and beverage advertising surrounding primary and secondary schools in poorly resourced townships in Cape Town, South Africa27
Left behind? A longitudinal ecological study of ‘regional deprivation amplification’ and life expectancy growth in in England (2004 to 2020)26
Urban-rural variation in the association between social support availability and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults: Results from the baseline Tracking Cohort of the Canadian Longitudi26
‘Loob’ and ‘labas’: Spatial constructions of safety and risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines26
Crossing streams: Merging sanitation justice and ecological sanitation through female urinals25
Socioeconomic differences and global trends in youth wellbeing and emotional distress in 165 countries and territories25
Beyond individual correlates: The moderating roles of neighborhood factors on loneliness among adults in predominately Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh25
“Poor and Dirty”: Unintended consequences in a hygiene material Distribution in Burkina Faso24
Social inequalities, green and blue spaces and mental health in 6–12 years old children participating in the INMA cohort24
Prevalence and social-structural correlates of forced moves among women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver, Canada24
Policymaker and stakeholder perspectives on determinants of fertility decisions through changing environmental and economic conditions in Greenland24
Spatial heterogeneity of blood pressure control and its influencing factors in elderly patients with essential hypertension: A small-scale spatial analysis24
Subjective and objective indicators of neighbourhood safety and physical activity among UK adolescents22
Using confirmatory principal component analysis to uncover the interplay between social and spatial factors among older adults: An exploratory study22
Uncovering spatiotemporal development patterns of AIDS in China: A study using panel data with Joinpoint Regression analysis and Spatial Clustering22
“You can feel it in the air”: The institutional atmosphere of the psychiatric hospital for prisoners22
Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health22
Public space and loneliness in young adults in the Netherlands: An experiment with virtual environments21
Exploring relationships between household crowding and health in two First Nations communities21
Perceived and quantified nature exposure in relation to mental health21
The transmission network and spatial-temporal distributions of COVID-19: A case study in Lanzhou, China21
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health: Neighborhood social-interactive characteristics as contextual mechanisms21
Topological Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (ToF-AHP) for geospatial assessment of malaria vulnerability in Nigeria20
Residential density and 20-minute neighbourhoods: A multi-neighbourhood destination location optimisation approach20
The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and supermarkets: A repeated cross-sectional study of area-level deprivation and food outlet density from 2011 to 202420
Before-school physical activity patterns among adolescents using accelerometer and GPS data20
Women's experiences of the food environment and their association with fruit and vegetable intake: Insights from northern Tanzania20
Entangled risks: knowledge co-production with sanitation workers to address current and future challenges of handling menstrual waste in informal settlements in Kenya20
A comparison of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility by public transit- and drive-time in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, 202419
Multilevel factors associated with overweight and obesity in East Africa: Comparative analysis in five countries from 2003 to 201619
Integrating coordination of food purchasing into activity space-based food environment research: Toward a household perspective19
Exploring the impacts of neighborhood disadvantage on Medicare beneficiaries’ early COVID-19 vaccine uptake19
Rebounding Malaria and the failures of eradication in Zanzibar: The World Health Organization campaign and the after effects, 1957–198519
A sense of home for people with dementia in a long-term care facility: A design perspective19
Association between immigrant concentration and mental health service utilization in the United States over time: A geospatial big data analysis19
Aging in climate change: Unpacking residential mobility and changes of social determinants of health in southern United States19
Intersectional inequalities in industrial air toxics exposure in the United States19
Building a systems-thinking community workforce to scale action on determinants of health in New Zealand19
Environmental phenotypes for healthy weight in children using population-based linked environment and health data: a cross-sectional observational study18
Modeling time-varying spatial accessibility to healthcare: A system dynamic approach18
Unveiling human-nature interaction: Qualitative exploration of perceived benefits of urban gardening18
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study18
Beyond the care home walls: how organisational and neighbourhood environments influence community access for residents living with dementia18
Policy impact pathways of climate-related urban health vulnerability – A retrospective analysis18
New insights into grocery store visits among east Los Angeles residents using mobility data18
Understanding heat-driven health risks: Spatiotemporal dynamics and regional vulnerability in new Mexico17
Spatial isolation and health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A critical discourse analysis17
Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults16
‘Care-ful’ boundary negotiation: Curating translocal subjectivities among Japanese women in London16
Activities in natural environments as remedy to loneliness: The role of connectedness to nature and place attachment16
Investigating the factors associated with preterm birth using evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort: a retrospective geospatial study16
“It is like post-traumatic stress disorder, but in a positive sense!”: New territories of the self as inner therapeutic landscapes for youth experiencing mental ill-health16
Housing for care, connection, and health equity16
The ethnic density effect as a contextual influence in ecological disease models: Establishing its quantitative expression16
Hospice topophilia and topophobia as experienced by a local population: Implications for equity of access16
Gender and violent crime modify associations between greenspace and cardiovascular disease mortality in Philadelphia, PA16
Leveraging LLMs and explainable AI to decode citizen complaints for neighborhood respiratory health prediction16
Who's responsible for health during extreme heat events? An ethnographic document analysis of health promotion materials in Australia16
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health16
Green space, life-course socioeconomic disparities and cognitive function in later life: A longitudinal analysis15
Short-term impact of a neighbourhood-based intervention on mental health and self-rated health in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada15
Neighborhood factors and incident stroke: reproducibility of associations across two nationwide cohorts15
Association of childhood residential environment and family socioeconomic status with physical activity in early adulthood - a population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 study15
Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland English residents: A pooled cross-sectional analysis of adult UKHLS respondents15
Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments15
Environmental correlates of adolescent active travel to school in Asia: An ecological study15
Cooling down hotspots of retail tobacco products: addressing disparities in the built environment through policy15
“In small places, close to home”: Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities15
Neighbourhood, school and home food environment associations with dietary behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents: the iHealth study15
The association between neighbourhood socioeconomic status and parental mental health in the first years after birth – Cross-sectional results from the SKKIPPI project15
To stay or grow? Migration patterns and child growth in rural Bihar, India15
The impact of migration and settlement context on Iranian Women's agency in accessing and using reproductive healthcare services in Australia: A qualitative study15
Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of immigrant and racialized populations in Canada14
Nature visits, but not residential greenness, are associated with reduced income-related inequalities in subjective well-being14
Insights from neighbourhood walking interviews using the Living Environments and Active Aging Framework (LEAAF) in community-dwelling older adults14
Alcohol availability around schools and adolescent consumption: A case study in Madrid, Spain14
Exploring community engagement in place-based approaches in areas of poor health and disadvantage: A scoping review14
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and travel time to diabetes prevention programs in Maryland14
A scoping review of nature-based programmes in schools for mental health and wellbeing in young people14
Toxic air pollution and cognitive decline: Untangling particulate matter14
Rurality, healthcare and crises: Investigating experiences, differences, and changes to medical care for people living in rural areas14
Wandering epizootics and zones of emergence: Constructing yellow fever endemicity in Africa13
How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States13
Postscript: A pandemic read on African health and environmental histories13
Does the health of local populations modify occupational differences in employment rates of older workers? Findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study 2001–201113
Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability13
Modeling the spatiotemporal transmission of COVID-19 epidemic by coupling the heterogeneous impact of detection rates: A case study in Hong Kong13
Changes in urbanicity and household availability of and proximity to food vendors from 2004 to 2020 in a rural district of northwestern Bangladesh13
Adherence to the combined Mediterranean-dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet is shaped by neighborhood socio-economics and food environments13
Playing with place: Co-designing landscapes through games in healthcare settings13
Associations between neighborhood built-environment characteristics and hepatic steatosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis13
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices13
Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study12
Living in a 20-min neighborhood and brain health and resilience in older adults: The Healthy Brain Initiative12
Individual, school, and neighborhood influences on disordered eating behaviors in adolescence and eating disorders in young adulthood12
Who uses what food retailers? A cluster analysis of food retail usage in the Netherlands12
A counterfactual analysis of opioid-involved deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic using a spatiotemporal random forest modeling approach12
Exposure to green, blue, and biodiverse spaces and their associations with loneliness in urban adults: Findings from the EPIPorto cohort12
Exploring placemaking in Boston's low-threshold transitional housing locations12
The digitalization of young women's food environments in Norway12
Challenges and opportunities for using data visualisation to communicate geographic health inequalities: perspectives from UK practitioners12
Are Spanish adolescents who actively commute to and from school more active in other domains? A spatiotemporal investigation12
Greenspace exposure may increase life expectancy of elderly adults, especially for those with low socioeconomic status12
Shaping the healthy subject in gentrified spaces: Two case studies in Barcelona (Spain)12
Developing the Intergenerational Community Survey for older adults: Assessing neighborhood environments, social and physical activities, and health12
Examining the state, quality and strength of the evidence in the research on built environments and physical activity among adults: An overview of reviews from high income countries12
Assessing the association between urban features and human physiological stress response using wearable sensors in different urban contexts12
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries: The World Health Organization Study on Global Aging and Adult Health12
The influence of residential Environment and residential experience on psychological depression in older adults: Evidence from China and Europe12
Physical environment and loneliness across cultures: A scoping review11
The association between off- and on-premise alcohol outlet density and 100% alcohol-attributable emergency department visits by neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada11
Residential history, the electronic health record, and clinical medicine: A descriptive study in a lung transplant cohort11
Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England11
The relationship between neighborhood typologies and self-rated health in Maryland: A latent class analysis11
I speak to the trees because nature is my friend: Conceptualization and assessment of connection to nature in solitude11
Organisational dressage: Conflicting embodied rhythms of a health station11
Environmental influences on mental health: eight-year longitudinal data show a bi-directional association between residential mobility and mental health outcomes11
“A place where I have lost and made friends”: A photovoice study on adolescents’ perspectives on health in a new residential development area in Munich, Germany11
Parenthood, spatial temporal environmental exposure, and leisure-time physical activity participation: Evidence from a micro-timescale retrospective longitudinal study11
Editorial Board11
Active public spaces can protect against multiple dimensions of loneliness: Qualitative evidence from an Australian sample in the COVID-19 pandemic11
Does the physical food environment in secondary school influence students’ social norm perceptions regarding healthy dietary choices? – An exploratory study in the Netherlands11
Socioeconomic deprivation and changes in the retail food environment of Mexico from 2010 to 202011
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity11
When you can't find the words: Using body mapping to communicate patients' experiences of Long Covid11
Patterns of sexual minority men's lifestyle and healthcare related activity spaces in Los Angeles11
Corrigendum to “Connecting place and nature-based traditional and spiritual practices among American Indian and First Nation Youth” [Health Place 92 2025 103424]11
Exposure to neighborhood poverty from adolescence through emerging adulthood and sleep duration in US adults11
Socioeconomic distribution of food outlet availability through online food delivery services in seven European countries: A cross-sectional study10
Large-scale greenway exposure reduces sedentary behavior: A natural experiment in China10
Regional disparities in cognitive life expectancy: The role of birth and current residence in the United States10
Longitudinal associations between the neighborhood social, natural, and built environment and mental health: A systematic review with meta-analyses10
Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches10
The association between women's decision-making roles in sanitation and mental well-being in urban Bangladesh10
Digital, social, and built environment influences on loneliness among older adults in China10
Can mindful eating buffer against the influence of neighbourhood fast food exposure on unhealthy food intake?10
Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in ‘third place’ availability across the United States from 2010 to 202110
Understanding variations in the built environment over time to inform longitudinal studies of young children's physical activity behaviour - The BEACHES project10
Structural barriers to health care as risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational-age birth among US-born Black and White mothers10
Health justice and economic segregation in climate risks: Tracing vulnerability and readiness progress10
The salience of social context, opioid antagonist use, and prior opioid exposure as determinants of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses10
Mental wellbeing and aging in place: The role of the built environment in promoting healthy aging10
Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona10
Pre-disaster income inequality and post-disaster mental health: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami10
Neighborhood matters: An exploration of neighborhood-level disadvantage and cancer preventive behaviors in Hispanic youth with unhealthy weight10
Health map for HealthGap: Defining a geographical catchment to examine cardiovascular risk in Victoria, Australia10
Neighborhood characteristics and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries: An examination of the role of the COVID-19 pandemic10
Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury: A scoping review10
Sea swimming during pregnancy and matrescence: Embodiment, experiences and the environment10
Does ethnic concentration buffer effects of neighborhood deprivation on early childhood growth?10
The temporality of geographic contexts: Individual environmental exposure has time-related effects on mood9
Associations between residential greenness and obesity phenotypes among adults in Southwest China9
Swimming, confusion, and plenty of brews: Negotiating ambivalence within Windermere's fragile waters9
Public greenspace and mental wellbeing among mid-older aged adults: Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study9
The association of neighborhood walkability and food environment with incident cardiovascular disease in The Maastricht Study9
Accounting for space, time, and behavior using GPS derived dynamic measures of environmental exposure9
What triggers selective daily mobility among older adults? A study comparing trip and environmental characteristics between observed path and shortest path9
Health in place and place in health: 30 years of Health & Place9
The overlooked role of place attachment in loneliness: An investigation among old people9
Active commuting to and from school among Spanish adolescents: social inequalities and environmental characteristics9
Neighborhood physical environments and change in cardiometabolic risk factors over 14 years in the study of Women's health across the nation9
Association between neighborhood social cohesion and depressive symptoms: findings from the CRONICAS Cohort Study9
Health-promoting and health-constraining environmental features and physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence: a geospatial cross-sectional study9
Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems9
To go or not to go: The challenges of UK public toilet provision9
Evaluating the protective effect of public open space on social connectedness: evidence from a natural experiment cohort study in three Canadian cities9
Socioeconomic inequalities and ambient air pollution exposure in school-aged children living in an affluent society: an analysis on individual and aggregated data in Belgium9
From distance to context: GPS-derived life-space mapping in older adults with and without dementia9
Nine-year exposure to residential greenness and the risk of metabolic syndrome among Luxembourgish adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-Lux cohort study9
Associations between area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of three online food delivery platforms9
A participatory food environment study on healthy diets in Southern and Eastern Zambia9
Canadian children's independent mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey9
Editorial Board9
Mediating role of walking between perceived and objective walkability and cognitive function in older adults9
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation inside and outside one's home neighborhood9
Location matters: Regional variation in association of community burden of COVID-19 with caregiver and youth worry8
The impact of air pollution on physical disability in a middle-aged and older Chinese population using regression discontinuity design8
Does nature make us less lonely? Analysis in Bulgaria's five largest cities8
Inequality in exposure to daily aircraft noise near heathrow airport: An empirical study8
Expiration of a state level eviction moratorium in the first or second trimester of pregnancy and perinatal outcomes among Medicaid and uninsured people, 2020–20228
Editorial Board8
A Bayesian multilevel analysis exploring population-level effects mediating the relationship between area-level poverty and community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) inf8
Green and blue spaces, COVID-19 lockdowns, and mental health: An Australian population-based longitudinal analysis8
Editorial Board8
The “uneven road” to food: Socioeconomic disparities in the mobility burden of food purchasing behavior in major US cities, 2019–20238
Neighborhood park access and park characteristics are associated with weight status in youth8
Advances and challenges in sensor-based research in mobility, health, and place8
Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health: An agenda8
Spatial and social inequities in access to essential healthcare services: a case study of a fast-growing, diverse Canadian city8
Negotiating risk and resilience: HIV prevention practices among hill tribe communities in northern Thailand8
Examining the association between the built environment and active travel using GPS data: A study of a large residential area (Daju) in Shanghai8
The impact of built environment on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective8
How to get children moving? The effectiveness of school-based interventions promoting physical activity in children and adolescents – A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled- an8
Examining the role of the diaspora in addressing the interconnections between human health and environmental change: The case of northern Senegalese communities8
Outdoor nature-based play in early learning and childcare centres: Identifying the determinants of implementation using causal loop diagrams and social network analysis8
Aquatic engagements, cultures of immersion and practices of well-being in India8
How does urbanization affect the cognitive function among older adults: A geospatial analysis in China8
Examining spatial disparities in essential primary care services across multiple geographic scales in South Korea8
Large-scale land investment, disease prevalence and infant mortality in Cambodia8
Heterogeneous effects of artificial light at night on sleep and mental health: 2SLS augmented geospatial data modeling and geo-correlation analysis8
Dynamic greenspace exposure, individual mental health status and momentary stress level: A study using multiple greenspace measurements8
Exploring the spatiotemporal stress patterns of commuting in large Cities: Using wearable device data8
The impact of place-based contextual social and environmental determinants on preterm birth: A systematic review of the empirical evidence8
Exploring neighborhood transformations and community gardens to meet the cultural food needs of immigrants and refugees: A scoping review8
Exploring the association between neighborhood disadvantage and cannabis retail density: A multi-measure analysis7
Influence pathways of noise exposure on people's negative emotions and health across different activity contexts: A neural network-based double machine learning approach7
Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making7
Creating privacy in pharmacies in West Africa7
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