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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Association between ambient temperatures and cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China, 2019–2021103
Reduction in the use of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health83
Hunting for fresh food: The impact of online fresh food platforms on health80
Characteristics of movers and predictors of residential mobility in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort59
Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel58
Examining the geographical distribution of air pollution disparities across different racial and ethnic groups: Incorporating workplace addresses54
Using geospatial trajectories to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the associations between environmental attributes and runnability of park trails53
Mobile daily diaries to characterize stressors and acute health symptoms in an environmental justice neighborhood51
Residential green and blue spaces and working memory in children aged 6–12 years old. Results from the INMA cohort45
Spatial accessibility and equity of residential care facilities in Beijing from 2010 to 202045
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales45
COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: Collective emotions and WASH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies42
Which dimensions of nature contact in Urban Green Spaces most significantly contribute to mental wellbeing? A multidimensional analysis in Brazilian metropolitan cities40
Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-1939
Inside and outside the neighborhood: Short-term and long-term subjective well-being by geographical context39
Unequal ecosystems of global health authorial expertise: Decolonising noncommunicable disease39
“We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites38
“I have to stay inside …”: Experiences of air pollution for people with asthma36
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places: a qualitative study of midlife Australians36
Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study35
Forces at play: A qualitative study of risk aversion, policy and decision making for children's physically active play in schools35
Does work-related and commuting physical activity predict changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the transition to retirement? GPS and accelerometer study34
Advancing geospatial preconception health research in primary care through medical informatics and artificial intelligence33
Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain33
Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A structural equation modeling approach33
Rapid review on healthy ageing interventions that incorporate action on climate change and sustainability in cities and communities33
Association between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation as measured by high resolution imagery: Findings from the PLAYCE study32
Hard-to-reach communities in the rural Ecuador: A qualitative perspective on dietary habits and physical activity32
Highs, lows, and fault lines: The geography of suicide clusters in Ecuador32
Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: Evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study30
Exploring residential relocation– differences between newcomers and settled residents in health, travel behaviour and neighbourhood perceptions30
Whose pollution, whose problem? Understanding perceptions of air pollution and implications for clean cooking (for health) in Nairobi schools29
Child and youth physical activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The changing role of the neighbourhood built and social environments28
‘Loob’ and ‘labas’: Spatial constructions of safety and risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines27
Towards emplaced understandings of risk: How caregivers of children with asthma identify and manage asthma-related risk across different places27
Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data27
Urban greenspace and mental health in Chinese older adults: Associations across different greenspace measures and mediating effects of environmental perceptions27
On the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) in healthcare accessibility measurement via the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method26
Contextual influences on chronic illness: A multi-level analysis in the twin cities of Ramallah and Al Bireh in the occupied Palestinian Territory26
Rethinking the place of compulsory community mental health treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications of an assemblage theory approach26
The extent of outdoor food and beverage advertising surrounding primary and secondary schools in poorly resourced townships in Cape Town, South Africa26
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 Longitudi25
Left behind? A longitudinal ecological study of ‘regional deprivation amplification’ and life expectancy growth in in England (2004 to 2020)25
“You can feel it in the air”: The institutional atmosphere of the psychiatric hospital for prisoners24
Using confirmatory principal component analysis to uncover the interplay between social and spatial factors among older adults: An exploratory study24
Socioeconomic differences and global trends in youth wellbeing and emotional distress in 165 countries and territories24
Uncovering spatiotemporal development patterns of AIDS in China: A study using panel data with Joinpoint Regression analysis and Spatial Clustering24
Sense of place, place attachment, and belonging-in-place in empirical research: A scoping review for rural health workforce research24
Before-school physical activity patterns among adolescents using accelerometer and GPS data24
“Poor and Dirty”: Unintended consequences in a hygiene material Distribution in Burkina Faso24
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 adolescents23
Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness23
Policymaker and stakeholder perspectives on determinants of fertility decisions through changing environmental and economic conditions in Greenland23
Exploring relationships between household crowding and health in two First Nations communities23
Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and psychiatric medication purchases. Different neighborhood delineations, different results? A nationwide register-based multilevel study23
Public space and loneliness in young adults in the Netherlands: An experiment with virtual environments22
Social inequalities, green and blue spaces and mental health in 6–12 years old children participating in the INMA cohort22
The transmission network and spatial-temporal distributions of COVID-19: A case study in Lanzhou, China22
Parenting in place: The reception centre as the spatial context for laying the foundations for asylum-seeking children's healthy development22
Socioeconomic patterns and COVID-19 outcomes before, during and after the lockdown in Italy (2020)22
The health impacts of place-based creative programmes on older adults’ health: A critical realist review22
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health: Neighborhood social-interactive characteristics as contextual mechanisms21
Residential density and 20-minute neighbourhoods: A multi-neighbourhood destination location optimisation approach21
“We see each other from a distance”: Neighbourhood social relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic matter for older adults’ social connectedness21
Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health21
Changes in neighborhood environments and the increasing socioeconomic gap in child obesity risks: Evidence from Singapore21
Childhood residential mobility and health outcomes: A meta-analysis20
Policy impact pathways of climate-related urban health vulnerability – A retrospective analysis20
Intersectional inequalities in industrial air toxics exposure in the United States20
Exploring the impacts of neighborhood disadvantage on Medicare beneficiaries’ early COVID-19 vaccine uptake20
Aging in climate change: Unpacking residential mobility and changes of social determinants of health in southern United States20
Changes in physical activity by context and residential greenness among recent retirees: Longitudinal GPS and accelerometer study20
Multilevel factors associated with overweight and obesity in East Africa: Comparative analysis in five countries from 2003 to 201619
A sense of home for people with dementia in a long-term care facility: A design perspective19
Rebounding Malaria and the failures of eradication in Zanzibar: The World Health Organization campaign and the after effects, 1957–198519
Building a systems-thinking community workforce to scale action on determinants of health in New Zealand19
The impact of neighborhood context on telomere length: A systematic review19
Integrating coordination of food purchasing into activity space-based food environment research: Toward a household perspective18
New insights into grocery store visits among east Los Angeles residents using mobility data17
Understanding the impact of the installation of outdoor fitness equipment and a multi-sports court on park visitation and park-based physical activity: A natural experiment17
Association between immigrant concentration and mental health service utilization in the United States over time: A geospatial big data analysis17
Unveiling human-nature interaction: Qualitative exploration of perceived benefits of urban gardening17
Modeling time-varying spatial accessibility to healthcare: A system dynamic approach17
Use of environmental scan to assess density, content, and variation of predatory food and beverage marketing in New York City17
Urban physical food environments drive dietary behaviours in Ghana and Kenya: A photovoice study17
Spatial isolation and health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A critical discourse analysis17
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study17
Estimating changes in emergency department visits associated with floods caused by Tropical Storm Imelda using satellite observations and syndromic surveillance17
Parks/sports facilities in local communities and the onset of functional disability among older adults in Japan: The J-shaped spatial spillover effects17
The impact of migration and settlement context on Iranian Women's agency in accessing and using reproductive healthcare services in Australia: A qualitative study16
Housing for care, connection, and health equity16
Neighborhood social environment change in late adolescence predicts substance use in emerging adulthood16
Walkability around the worksite and self-reported and accelerometer-measured physical activity among adults16
Neighbourhood, school and home food environment associations with dietary behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents: the iHealth study16
Hospice topophilia and topophobia as experienced by a local population: Implications for equity of access16
Short-term impact of a neighbourhood-based intervention on mental health and self-rated health in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada15
Contemplative practices: The body as therapeutic site linking health and place15
‘Care-ful’ boundary negotiation: Curating translocal subjectivities among Japanese women in London15
The association between neighbourhood socioeconomic status and parental mental health in the first years after birth – Cross-sectional results from the SKKIPPI project15
“In small places, close to home”: Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities15
To stay or grow? Migration patterns and child growth in rural Bihar, India15
The ethnic density effect as a contextual influence in ecological disease models: Establishing its quantitative expression15
Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of immigrant and racialized populations in Canada14
Shaping the healthy subject in gentrified spaces: Two case studies in Barcelona (Spain)14
Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments14
Exploring community engagement in place-based approaches in areas of poor health and disadvantage: A scoping review14
“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-health14
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health14
Wandering epizootics and zones of emergence: Constructing yellow fever endemicity in Africa14
Toxic air pollution and cognitive decline: Untangling particulate matter14
Insights from neighbourhood walking interviews using the Living Environments and Active Aging Framework (LEAAF) in community-dwelling older adults14
Gender and violent crime modify associations between greenspace and cardiovascular disease mortality in Philadelphia, PA14
Does the health of local populations modify occupational differences in employment rates of older workers? Findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study 2001–201114
Environmental correlates of adolescent active travel to school in Asia: An ecological study14
Sharing believable stories: A qualitative study exploring the relevance of case studies for influencing the creation of healthy environments14
Rurality, healthcare and crises: Investigating experiences, differences, and changes to medical care for people living in rural areas14
Nature visits, but not residential greenness, are associated with reduced income-related inequalities in subjective well-being14
A counterfactual analysis of opioid-involved deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic using a spatiotemporal random forest modeling approach13
How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States13
Developing the Intergenerational Community Survey for older adults: Assessing neighborhood environments, social and physical activities, and health13
Socioeconomic inequalities in distance to and participation in a community-based running and walking activity: A longitudinal ecological study of parkrun 2010 to 201913
Modeling the spatiotemporal transmission of COVID-19 epidemic by coupling the heterogeneous impact of detection rates: A case study in Hong Kong13
Visualizing changes in physical activity behavioral patterns after redesigning urban infrastructure13
Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability13
The influence of residential Environment and residential experience on psychological depression in older adults: Evidence from China and Europe13
Postscript: A pandemic read on African health and environmental histories13
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and travel time to diabetes prevention programs in Maryland13
How can an agent-based model explore the impact of interventions on children's physical activity in an urban environment?13
Changes in urbanicity and household availability of and proximity to food vendors from 2004 to 2020 in a rural district of northwestern Bangladesh12
Temporal trends in within-city inequities in COVID-19 incidence rate by area-level deprivation in Madrid, Spain12
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
When you can't find the words: Using body mapping to communicate patients' experiences of Long Covid12
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices12
Associations between neighborhood built-environment characteristics and hepatic steatosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis12
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
Assessing the association between urban features and human physiological stress response using wearable sensors in different urban contexts12
Parenthood, spatial temporal environmental exposure, and leisure-time physical activity participation: Evidence from a micro-timescale retrospective longitudinal study12
Are Spanish adolescents who actively commute to and from school more active in other domains? A spatiotemporal investigation12
Editorial Board12
Who uses what food retailers? A cluster analysis of food retail usage in the Netherlands12
Residential history, the electronic health record, and clinical medicine: A descriptive study in a lung transplant cohort12
Measuring spatio-temporal disparity of location-based accessibility to emergency medical services12
Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study12
Greenspace exposure may increase life expectancy of elderly adults, especially for those with low socioeconomic status12
Neighbourhood effects on psychiatric disorders among Finnish adolescents: The moderating impact of family background11
Environmental influences on mental health: eight-year longitudinal data show a bi-directional association between residential mobility and mental health outcomes11
Social integration as a determinant of inequalities in green space usage: Insights from a theoretical agent-based model11
Exploring the spatial scale effects of built environments on transport walking: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis11
“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
Exposure to neighborhood poverty from adolescence through emerging adulthood and sleep duration in US adults11
Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England11
Organisational dressage: Conflicting embodied rhythms of a health station11
Socioeconomic distribution of food outlet availability through online food delivery services in seven European countries: A cross-sectional study11
The relationship between neighborhood typologies and self-rated health in Maryland: A latent class analysis11
The other side of the story: Intended parents' surrogacy journeys, stigma and relational reproductive justice11
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
Regional disparities in cognitive life expectancy: The role of birth and current residence in the United States10
Editorial Board10
Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches10
Mental wellbeing and aging in place: The role of the built environment in promoting healthy aging10
Understanding variations in the built environment over time to inform longitudinal studies of young children's physical activity behaviour - The BEACHES project10
Neighborhood matters: An exploration of neighborhood-level disadvantage and cancer preventive behaviors in Hispanic youth with unhealthy weight10
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
Pre-disaster income inequality and post-disaster mental health: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami10
Health justice and economic segregation in climate risks: Tracing vulnerability and readiness progress10
Using aggregated mobile phone location data to compare the realised foodscapes of different socio-economic groups.10
Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury: A scoping review10
Editorial Board10
Neighborhood-level COVID-19 hospitalizations and mortality relationships with built environment, active and sedentary travel10
Design of public open space: Site features, playing, and physical activity10
Socioeconomic deprivation and changes in the retail food environment of Mexico from 2010 to 202010
Longitudinal associations between the neighborhood social, natural, and built environment and mental health: A systematic review with meta-analyses10
Experiences of healthcare for mothers of children with ongoing illness, living in deprived neighbourhoods health and place10
Large-scale greenway exposure reduces sedentary behavior: A natural experiment in China10
Neighborhood characteristics and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries: An examination of the role of the COVID-19 pandemic10
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach10
Can mindful eating buffer against the influence of neighbourhood fast food exposure on unhealthy food intake?10
Stakeholder experiences of using online spatial data visualisation tools for local public health decision support: A qualitative study10
Neighborhood resources associated with frailty trajectories over time among community-dwelling older adults in China10
A life course approach to understanding associations between natural environments and mental well-being for the Danish blood donor cohort9
Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona9
Accounting for space, time, and behavior using GPS derived dynamic measures of environmental exposure9
Contextualising health seeking behaviours for febrile illness: Lived experiences of farmers in northern Tanzania9
Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems9
The salience of social context, opioid antagonist use, and prior opioid exposure as determinants of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses9
Swimming, confusion, and plenty of brews: Negotiating ambivalence within Windermere's fragile waters9
Challenging federal exclusion: Immigrant safety, health, and healthcare access in sanctuary cities9
Structural barriers to health care as risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational-age birth among US-born Black and White mothers9
Associations between area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of three online food delivery platforms9
What triggers selective daily mobility among older adults? A study comparing trip and environmental characteristics between observed path and shortest path9
Factors influencing usage of urban blue spaces: A systems-based approach to identify leverage points9
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
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
Mediating role of walking between perceived and objective walkability and cognitive function in older adults9
Associations between residential greenness and obesity phenotypes among adults in Southwest China9
The built environment and perceived HIV risk among young women living in the peri-urban slum of Kibra, Nairobi, Kenya9
Does ethnic concentration buffer effects of neighborhood deprivation on early childhood growth?9
Canadian children's independent mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey9
Overcoming the tragedy of urban commons. Collective practices for a healthy city ecology in disadvantaged neighborhoods9
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
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation inside and outside one's home neighborhood8
Exploring neighborhood transformations and community gardens to meet the cultural food needs of immigrants and refugees: A scoping review8
Examining the association between the built environment and active travel using GPS data: A study of a large residential area (Daju) in Shanghai8
Editorial Board8
Location matters: Regional variation in association of community burden of COVID-19 with caregiver and youth worry8
Neighborhood park access and park characteristics are associated with weight status in youth8
Nine-year exposure to residential greenness and the risk of metabolic syndrome among Luxembourgish adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-Lux cohort study8
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
Outdoor nature-based play in early learning and childcare centres: Identifying the determinants of implementation using causal loop diagrams and social network analysis8
Dynamic greenspace exposure, individual mental health status and momentary stress level: A study using multiple greenspace measurements8
Routes to retirement, working conditions and quality of life in comparative perspective8
Inequality in exposure to daily aircraft noise near heathrow airport: An empirical study8
The impact of built environment on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective8
The temporality of geographic contexts: Individual environmental exposure has time-related effects on mood8
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
Green and blue spaces, COVID-19 lockdowns, and mental health: An Australian population-based longitudinal analysis8
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Hydrophobia, dis/connection, and difference: Understanding Chinese immigrants’ fear of coastal swimming in Aotearoa New Zealand8
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
Delineating the geographic context of physical activities: A systematic search and scoping review of the methodological approaches used in social ecological research over two decades8
The impact of place-based contextual social and environmental determinants on preterm birth: A systematic review of the empirical evidence8
Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991–2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions7
Community ethnic density, ethnic segregation, and ethnic minorities' common mental disorders in the UK7
Aquatic engagements, cultures of immersion and practices of well-being in India7
Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa: Findings from a global health intervention in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe7
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
Disparities in spatiotemporal clustering of maternal mental health conditions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Exploring the association between neighborhood disadvantage and cannabis retail density: A multi-measure analysis7
Greenspace programmes for mental health: A survey study to test what works, for whom, and in what circumstances7
School physical activity policies and associations with physical activity practices and behaviours: A systematic review of the literature7
How does urbanization affect the cognitive function among older adults: A geospatial analysis in China7
Knowledge, attitudes, and support of women's menstrual experiences: A cross-sectional survey of men in Kampala, Uganda7
Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making7
Continuity and change in neighborhood disadvantage and adolescent depression and anxiety7
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
The impact of air pollution on physical disability in a middle-aged and older Chinese population using regression discontinuity design7
Development and validation of automated microscale walkability audit method7
Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health: An agenda7
Analysis of the Dong bao Ye as sacred landscape and its Putative therapeutic mechanisms7
Analysis of the impact of financial and labour uncertainty on suicide mortality in England7
Changes in activity spaces, life spaces, and exposures to physical activity-promoting environments among women with overweight or obesity7
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
Identifying spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 transmission clusters and their built-environment features at the neighbourhood scale7
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