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Journal article
Policy, Research and Residents' Perspectives on Built Environments Implicated in Heart Disease: A Concept Mapping Approach
International journal of environmental research and public health, v 14(2), p170
09 Feb 2017
PMID: 28208786
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Abstract
An underrepresentation of stakeholder perspectives within urban health research arguably limits our understanding of what is a multi-dimensional and complex relationship between the built environment and health. By engaging a wide range of stakeholders using a participatory concept mapping approach, this study aimed to achieve a more holistic and nuanced understanding of the built environments shaping disease risk, specifically cardiometabolic risk (CMR). Moreover, this study aimed to ascertain the importance and changeability of identified environments through government action. Through the concept mapping process, community members, researchers, government and non-government stakeholders collectively identified eleven clusters encompassing 102 built environmental domains related to CMR, a number of which are underrepresented within the literature. Among the identified built environments, open space, public transportation and pedestrian environments were highlighted as key targets for policy intervention. Whilst there was substantive convergence in stakeholder groups' perspectives concerning the built environment and CMR, there were disparities in the level of importance government stakeholders and community members respectively assigned to pedestrian environments and street connectivity. These findings support the role of participatory methods in strengthening how urban health issues are understood and in affording novel insights into points of action for public health and policy intervention.
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- Title
- Policy, Research and Residents' Perspectives on Built Environments Implicated in Heart Disease: A Concept Mapping Approach
- Creators
- Ivana Stankov - Drexel UniversityNatasha J Howard - University of South AustraliaMark Daniel - University of South AustraliaMargaret Cargo - University of South Australia
- Publication Details
- International journal of environmental research and public health, v 14(2), p170
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000395467900062
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85012250726
- Other Identifier
- 991019169667304721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Environmental Sciences
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health