Built Environment and Public Health: Land Use, Neighborhoods, and Housing

Dear Colleagues,

The built environment is a social determinant of health and plays a critical role in public health and quality of life. Communities, neighborhoods, and housing should be designed and maintained as clean, safe, affordable, and equitable. They should also promote healthy eating and active living and foster mental health, social support, and social cohesion. Understanding the connections between the built environment and public health is therefore critical for designing and implementing upstream and population-level interventions that target disease and injury. Analyzing this link remains promising for both research and practice. This Special Issue invites research articles that utilize different methodologies to explore these relationships from various angles and in different contexts. Research articles should be grounded in existing knowledge and aim to further our understanding of these connections. This issue also invites practice-oriented papers that detail programmatic and policy interventions centered on land use, neighborhoods, or housing and public health. Practice-oriented papers should include descriptive components and should also be grounded in theory and/or research. They should also be analytical; they should highlight the lessons learned that may be of value in research and practice.

Dr. Courtney A. Coughenour
Dr. Maxim Gakh
Dr. Erika Marquez
Guest Editors

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