Natural and Built Outdoor Environments and Children’s Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on the impact of built and natural environments on children's health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, please visit http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Physical, mental, and social health are important considerations for many urban planners and policy-makers. Exposures in early childhood and through adolescent development set trajectories for risks of disease and illness in adulthood. Despite the importance of childhood exposures to lifelong health, they remain less studied and more poorly understood than adulthood exposures.

Countless attributes of childhood environments can impact lifelong health. Of particular interest are the effects of neighborhood socio-demographics, green spaces, fresh food availability, social services such as post offices and churches, street connectivity and walkability, and public transportation systems. Additional research in urban and rural settings and developing and developed countries will better guide policy efforts and planning for children's health.

This Special Issue is open to submissions that study how environmental exposures affect health from conception through childhood and young adulthood. Especially welcome are studies of the exposome—the combined effects of at least two exposures—and life-course epidemiology frameworks. The supplemental keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Dr. Iana Markevych
Dr. Matthew Browning
Guest Editors
Dr. Angel Dzhambov
Prof. Dr. Peter Lercher
Co-Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.