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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban neighborhood factors influencing adolescent health and well-being: A qualitative study among adolescent boys in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands142
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales96
Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel89
Reduction in the use of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health85
‘This is where I can be myself’: places that enable flourishing in older age70
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health61
Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort57
Examining the geographical distribution of air pollution disparities across different racial and ethnic groups: Incorporating workplace addresses57
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites55
Inside and outside the neighborhood: Short-term and long-term subjective well-being by geographical context53
COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: Collective emotions and WASH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies53
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians47
Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails46
Spatial accessibility and equity of residential care facilities in Beijing from 2010 to 202046
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–202145
How public open spaces co-construct solitary experiences in densely populated urban environments43
“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma43
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities42
Mobile daily diaries to characterize stressors and acute health symptoms in an environmental justice neighborhood40
Child and youth physical activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The changing role of the neighbourhood built and social environments39
Perceived housing inadequacy and health: Cumulative and gendered effects beyond objective housing standards39
Heatwaves and health vulnerabilities of older informal workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A qualitative study39
Rapid review on healthy ageing interventions that incorporate action on climate change and sustainability in cities and communities36
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
Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data34
Hard-to-reach communities in the rural Ecuador: A qualitative perspective on dietary habits and physical activity34
Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence33
Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study33
Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain33
Does work-related and commuting physical activity predict changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the transition to retirement? GPS and accelerometer study33
Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A structural equation modeling approach32
Built environment in early life is linked to heterogeneous trajectories of loneliness from childhood to adolescence in the ABCD study32
Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study32
Forces at play: A qualitative study of risk aversion, policy and decision making for children's physically active play in schools31
Exploring residential relocation– differences between newcomers and settled residents in health, travel behaviour and neighbourhood perceptions31
Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: Evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study30
Whose pollution, whose problem? Understanding perceptions of air pollution and implications for clean cooking (for health) in Nairobi schools29
Spatial heterogeneity of blood pressure control and its influencing factors in elderly patients with essential hypertension: A small-scale spatial analysis29
‘Loob’ and ‘labas’: Spatial constructions of safety and risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines28
The extent of outdoor food and beverage advertising surrounding primary and secondary schools in poorly resourced townships in Cape Town, South Africa28
Left behind? A longitudinal ecological study of ‘regional deprivation amplification’ and life expectancy growth in in England (2004 to 2020)27
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 Longitudi27
Rethinking the place of compulsory community mental health treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications of an assemblage theory approach27
Crossing streams: Merging sanitation justice and ecological sanitation through female urinals27
An exploratory study of loneliness in migrant-origin communities due to transforming ethnic public spaces26
Beyond individual correlates: The moderating roles of neighborhood factors on loneliness among adults in predominately Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh26
Socioeconomic differences and global trends in youth wellbeing and emotional distress in 165 countries and territories26
On the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) in healthcare accessibility measurement via the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method26
Urban greenspace and mental health in Chinese older adults: Associations across different greenspace measures and mediating effects of environmental perceptions25
Changes in neighborhood environments and the increasing socioeconomic gap in child obesity risks: Evidence from Singapore24
“Poor and Dirty”: Unintended consequences in a hygiene material Distribution in Burkina Faso24
Policymaker and stakeholder perspectives on determinants of fertility decisions through changing environmental and economic conditions in Greenland23
Residential density and 20-minute neighbourhoods: A multi-neighbourhood destination location optimisation approach23
Before-school physical activity patterns among adolescents using accelerometer and GPS data22
Social inequalities, green and blue spaces and mental health in 6–12 years old children participating in the INMA cohort22
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
Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health22
Subjective and objective indicators of neighbourhood safety and physical activity among UK adolescents22
Public space and loneliness in young adults in the Netherlands: An experiment with virtual environments21
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 202421
Exploring relationships between household crowding and health in two First Nations communities21
“You can feel it in the air”: The institutional atmosphere of the psychiatric hospital for prisoners21
The transmission network and spatial-temporal distributions of COVID-19: A case study in Lanzhou, China21
“We see each other from a distance”: Neighbourhood social relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic matter for older adults’ social connectedness21
Entangled risks: knowledge co-production with sanitation workers to address current and future challenges of handling menstrual waste in informal settlements in Kenya21
Parenting in place: The reception centre as the spatial context for laying the foundations for asylum-seeking children's healthy development21
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health: Neighborhood social-interactive characteristics as contextual mechanisms21
The health impacts of place-based creative programmes on older adults’ health: A critical realist review20
Perceived and quantified nature exposure in relation to mental health19
Aging in climate change: Unpacking residential mobility and changes of social determinants of health in southern United States19
Rebounding Malaria and the failures of eradication in Zanzibar: The World Health Organization campaign and the after effects, 1957–198519
Understanding heat-driven health risks: Spatiotemporal dynamics and regional vulnerability in new Mexico19
A comparison of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility by public transit- and drive-time in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, 202419
Policy impact pathways of climate-related urban health vulnerability – A retrospective analysis19
Multilevel factors associated with overweight and obesity in East Africa: Comparative analysis in five countries from 2003 to 201618
A sense of home for people with dementia in a long-term care facility: A design perspective18
Building a systems-thinking community workforce to scale action on determinants of health in New Zealand18
Intersectional inequalities in industrial air toxics exposure in the United States18
Use of environmental scan to assess density, content, and variation of predatory food and beverage marketing in New York City18
Leveraging LLMs and explainable AI to decode citizen complaints for neighborhood respiratory health prediction17
Integrating coordination of food purchasing into activity space-based food environment research: Toward a household perspective17
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study17
Spatial isolation and health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A critical discourse analysis17
Unveiling human-nature interaction: Qualitative exploration of perceived benefits of urban gardening17
Exploring the impacts of neighborhood disadvantage on Medicare beneficiaries’ early COVID-19 vaccine uptake17
New insights into grocery store visits among east Los Angeles residents using mobility data17
Association between immigrant concentration and mental health service utilization in the United States over time: A geospatial big data analysis17
Environmental correlates of adolescent active travel to school in Asia: An ecological study16
‘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
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
Who's responsible for health during extreme heat events? An ethnographic document analysis of health promotion materials in Australia16
The impact of migration and settlement context on Iranian Women's agency in accessing and using reproductive healthcare services in Australia: A qualitative study16
Modeling time-varying spatial accessibility to healthcare: A system dynamic approach16
Cooling down hotspots of retail tobacco products: addressing disparities in the built environment through policy15
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health15
“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-health15
Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of immigrant and racialized populations in Canada15
Gender and violent crime modify associations between greenspace and cardiovascular disease mortality in Philadelphia, PA15
Short-term impact of a neighbourhood-based intervention on mental health and self-rated health in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada15
Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland English residents: A pooled cross-sectional analysis of adult UKHLS respondents15
Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults15
Toxic air pollution and cognitive decline: Untangling particulate matter15
Contemplative practices: The body as therapeutic site linking health and place15
Housing for care, connection, and health equity14
The association between neighbourhood socioeconomic status and parental mental health in the first years after birth – Cross-sectional results from the SKKIPPI project14
Exploring community engagement in place-based approaches in areas of poor health and disadvantage: A scoping review14
Green space, life-course socioeconomic disparities and cognitive function in later life: A longitudinal analysis14
Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments14
Investigating the factors associated with preterm birth using evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort: a retrospective geospatial study14
Neighbourhood, school and home food environment associations with dietary behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents: the iHealth study14
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
Nature visits, but not residential greenness, are associated with reduced income-related inequalities in subjective well-being14
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and travel time to diabetes prevention programs in Maryland14
To stay or grow? Migration patterns and child growth in rural Bihar, India14
Neighborhood factors and incident stroke: reproducibility of associations across two nationwide cohorts14
“In small places, close to home”: Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities14
Association of childhood residential environment and family socioeconomic status with physical activity in early adulthood - a population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 study14
Rurality, healthcare and crises: Investigating experiences, differences, and changes to medical care for people living in rural areas14
Associations between neighborhood built-environment characteristics and hepatic steatosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis13
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 countries13
Visualizing changes in physical activity behavioral patterns after redesigning urban infrastructure13
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices13
A counterfactual analysis of opioid-involved deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic using a spatiotemporal random forest modeling approach13
Exposure to green, blue, and biodiverse spaces and their associations with loneliness in urban adults: Findings from the EPIPorto cohort13
The digitalization of young women's food environments in Norway13
The influence of residential Environment and residential experience on psychological depression in older adults: Evidence from China and Europe13
Does the health of local populations modify occupational differences in employment rates of older workers? Findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study 2001–201113
Postscript: A pandemic read on African health and environmental histories13
Changes in urbanicity and household availability of and proximity to food vendors from 2004 to 2020 in a rural district of northwestern Bangladesh13
Modeling the spatiotemporal transmission of COVID-19 epidemic by coupling the heterogeneous impact of detection rates: A case study in Hong Kong13
Who uses what food retailers? A cluster analysis of food retail usage in the Netherlands12
How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States12
Temporal trends in within-city inequities in COVID-19 incidence rate by area-level deprivation in Madrid, Spain12
“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, Germany12
Greenspace exposure may increase life expectancy of elderly adults, especially for those with low socioeconomic status12
Assessing the association between urban features and human physiological stress response using wearable sensors in different urban contexts12
Developing the Intergenerational Community Survey for older adults: Assessing neighborhood environments, social and physical activities, and health12
Adherence to the combined Mediterranean-dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet is shaped by neighborhood socio-economics and food environments12
Playing with place: Co-designing landscapes through games in healthcare settings12
Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study12
Shaping the healthy subject in gentrified spaces: Two case studies in Barcelona (Spain)12
Residential history, the electronic health record, and clinical medicine: A descriptive study in a lung transplant cohort12
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
Wandering epizootics and zones of emergence: Constructing yellow fever endemicity in Africa12
Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability12
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
Are Spanish adolescents who actively commute to and from school more active in other domains? A spatiotemporal investigation12
Exploring placemaking in Boston's low-threshold transitional housing locations12
Socioeconomic deprivation and changes in the retail food environment of Mexico from 2010 to 202011
Does the physical food environment in secondary school influence students’ social norm perceptions regarding healthy dietary choices? – An exploratory study in the Netherlands11
When you can't find the words: Using body mapping to communicate patients' experiences of Long Covid11
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
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 study11
Active public spaces can protect against multiple dimensions of loneliness: Qualitative evidence from an Australian sample in the COVID-19 pandemic11
Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England11
Editorial Board11
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity11
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
Parenthood, spatial temporal environmental exposure, and leisure-time physical activity participation: Evidence from a micro-timescale retrospective longitudinal study11
Physical environment and loneliness across cultures: A scoping review11
Corrigendum to “Connecting place and nature-based traditional and spiritual practices among American Indian and First Nation Youth” [Health Place 92 2025 103424]11
Children's experiences of the journey between home and school: A qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography10
Understanding variations in the built environment over time to inform longitudinal studies of young children's physical activity behaviour - The BEACHES project10
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Pre-disaster income inequality and post-disaster mental health: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami10
Can mindful eating buffer against the influence of neighbourhood fast food exposure on unhealthy food intake?10
Large-scale greenway exposure reduces sedentary behavior: A natural experiment in China10
Longitudinal associations between the neighborhood social, natural, and built environment and mental health: A systematic review with meta-analyses10
Neighborhood characteristics and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries: An examination of the role of the COVID-19 pandemic10
Health justice and economic segregation in climate risks: Tracing vulnerability and readiness progress10
Mental wellbeing and aging in place: The role of the built environment in promoting healthy aging10
Regional disparities in cognitive life expectancy: The role of birth and current residence in the United States10
Patterns of sexual minority men's lifestyle and healthcare related activity spaces in Los Angeles10
The association between off- and on-premise alcohol outlet density and 100% alcohol-attributable emergency department visits by neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada10
Neighborhood matters: An exploration of neighborhood-level disadvantage and cancer preventive behaviors in Hispanic youth with unhealthy weight10
Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in ‘third place’ availability across the United States from 2010 to 202110
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach10
The association between women's decision-making roles in sanitation and mental well-being in urban Bangladesh10
Canadian children's independent mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey9
Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury: A scoping review9
Structural barriers to health care as risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational-age birth among US-born Black and White mothers9
The salience of social context, opioid antagonist use, and prior opioid exposure as determinants of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses9
Health map for HealthGap: Defining a geographical catchment to examine cardiovascular risk in Victoria, Australia9
Health-promoting and health-constraining environmental features and physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence: a geospatial cross-sectional study9
Green and blue spaces, COVID-19 lockdowns, and mental health: An Australian population-based longitudinal analysis9
Associations between area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of three online food delivery platforms9
Mediating role of walking between perceived and objective walkability and cognitive function in older adults9
Public greenspace and mental wellbeing among mid-older aged adults: Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study9
Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches9
The association of neighborhood walkability and food environment with incident cardiovascular disease in The Maastricht Study9
To go or not to go: The challenges of UK public toilet provision9
Digital, social, and built environment influences on loneliness among older adults in China9
Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems9
Heterogeneous effects of artificial light at night on sleep and mental health: 2SLS augmented geospatial data modeling and geo-correlation analysis9
The temporality of geographic contexts: Individual environmental exposure has time-related effects on mood9
Accounting for space, time, and behavior using GPS derived dynamic measures of environmental exposure9
Does ethnic concentration buffer effects of neighborhood deprivation on early childhood growth?9
Swimming, confusion, and plenty of brews: Negotiating ambivalence within Windermere's fragile waters9
What triggers selective daily mobility among older adults? A study comparing trip and environmental characteristics between observed path and shortest path9
Sea swimming during pregnancy and matrescence: Embodiment, experiences and the environment9
Editorial Board9
Health in place and place in health: 30 years of Health & Place9
Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona9
Nine-year exposure to residential greenness and the risk of metabolic syndrome among Luxembourgish adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-Lux cohort study8
Dynamic greenspace exposure, individual mental health status and momentary stress level: A study using multiple greenspace measurements8
The impact of built environment on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective8
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation inside and outside one's home neighborhood8
Socioeconomic inequalities and ambient air pollution exposure in school-aged children living in an affluent society: an analysis on individual and aggregated data in Belgium8
Examining the role of the diaspora in addressing the interconnections between human health and environmental change: The case of northern Senegalese communities8
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
Associations between residential greenness and obesity phenotypes among adults in Southwest China8
Exploring neighborhood transformations and community gardens to meet the cultural food needs of immigrants and refugees: A scoping review8
Evaluating the protective effect of public open space on social connectedness: evidence from a natural experiment cohort study in three Canadian cities8
Examining the association between the built environment and active travel using GPS data: A study of a large residential area (Daju) in Shanghai8
The overlooked role of place attachment in loneliness: An investigation among old people8
Outdoor nature-based play in early learning and childcare centres: Identifying the determinants of implementation using causal loop diagrams and social network analysis8
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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
Neighborhood physical environments and change in cardiometabolic risk factors over 14 years in the study of Women's health across the nation8
The neighborhood environment and its association with the spatio-temporal footprint of tobacco consumption and changes in smoking-related behaviors in a Swiss urban area8
The impact of place-based contextual social and environmental determinants on preterm birth: A systematic review of the empirical evidence8
Exploring the spatiotemporal stress patterns of commuting in large Cities: Using wearable device data8
Visualising the impacts of COVID-19 on health service delivery during the height of the pandemic in Papua New Guinea; a photovoice study7
Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa: Findings from a global health intervention in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe7
Differential impact of maternal education on under-five mortality in rural and urban India7
Analysis of the impact of financial and labour uncertainty on suicide mortality in England7
Creating privacy in pharmacies in West Africa7
Influence pathways of noise exposure on people's negative emotions and health across different activity contexts: A neural network-based double machine learning approach7
The moderating role of parent perceptions in relationships between objectively measured neighbourhood environment attributes and pre-schooler’s physical activity: Findings from the PLAYCE study7
Spatial and social inequities in access to essential healthcare services: a case study of a fast-growing, diverse Canadian city7
Neighbourhood deprivation and intersectional inequalities in biomarkers of healthy ageing in England7
A comprehensive GPS-based analysis of activity spaces in early and late pregnancy using the ActMAP framework7
Identifying spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 transmission clusters and their built-environment features at the neighbourhood scale7
Energy poverty and health inequalities in Barcelona: A cross-sectional trends study in the context of COVID-19, energy crisis and climate change, 2016–20217
Disparities in spatiotemporal clustering of maternal mental health conditions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Place-based Opportunities and Physiological Stress: Understanding Neighborhood-level Disparities in Allostatic Load7
Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making7
Changes in activity spaces, life spaces, and exposures to physical activity-promoting environments among women with overweight or obesity7
Exploring the association between neighborhood disadvantage and cannabis retail density: A multi-measure analysis7
Knowledge, attitudes, and support of women's menstrual experiences: A cross-sectional survey of men in Kampala, Uganda7
Analysis of the Dong bao Ye as sacred landscape and its Putative therapeutic mechanisms7
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