Neighbourhood Environmental Contribution and Health. A novel indicator integrating urban form and urban green

Abstract

The relationship between urban green, urban form and health remains unclear. This research explores health and urban green as well as urban structure as constituents of urban form. The objective was to develop a novel indicator (Neighbourhood Environmental Contribution, NEC) to analyse the spatial relationship between urban green and health (diabetes, mental health and self-rated health) on the neighbourhood scale. NEC performs more stably when regression models are adjusted for confounders. This suggests that better representations of urban form including the built-up structure of urban areas are promising.

Keywords

• diabetes
• mental health
• self-rated health
• mülheim
• essen
• bochum ndvi
• neighbourhood environmental contribution