Urban residential environments and senior citizens’ longevity in megacity areas: the importance of walkable green spaces

By T. Takano, Keiko Nakamura, M. Watanabe. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2002

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Would You Be Happier Living in a Greener Urban Area? A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Panel Data (2013, background): “Specifically, Takano, Nakamura, and Watanabe (2002) related the amount of “walkable green space” around the home of elderly individuals in Japan to their mortality rate 5 years later and found lower mortality among those with higher green-space proximity.”
Nature and health. (2014, background): “Research in the field accordingly represents health in many ways, not only with regard to forms of morbidity (86), causes of mortality (94), and longevity (119) but also with regard to self-reported health (26) and diverse intermediate outcomes involving different pathways, such as beneficial change”
Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review (2007, background): “Furthermore, epidemiological studies have provided evidence of a positive relationship between longevity and access to green space (Takano et al. 2002; Tanaka et al. 1996), and between green space and self-reported health (de Vries et al. 2003).”
Health benefits of green spaces in the living environment: A systematic review of epidemiological studies (2015, background): “…+ + - NA + + + OR + + 1 7 88 MQ Adjustment for household income 32 sturm et al. 2014 (perceived mental health) + NR + NA + + + + - 1 6 75 MQ 33 Takano et al. 2002a (mortality) + + NA NA + - + + - 2 5 71 LQ Note: no regression, only spearman’s correlation 34 Takano et al. 2002b + + - + + + +…”
A Review of the Health Benefits of Greenness (2015, neutral): “The first mortality analysis took place in Japan, where researchers asked elderly participants about characteristics of their residential surroundings at base-line [85].”
The Childhood Factor (2008, background): “…studies of age as a factor in adult access outdoors and, until recently, only a limited number that considered in particular the variables influencing outdoor access for older people (e.g., Sugiyama & Ward Thompson, 2005; Takano et al., 2002), which are deserving of more attention in the future.”
Is Green Space in the Living Environment Associated with People's Feelings of Social Safety? (2009, background): “…positively related to people's self-perceived health and lower mortality risks (de Vries et al, 2003; Maas et al, 2006; Mitchell and Popham, 2007; Nielsen and Hansen, 2007; Takano et al, 2002); but there might be another side to this coin, as natural spaces are also often regarded as unsafe places.”
The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health (2012, neutral): “,(65) Wells and Evans,(96) Coley et al.(117)”
Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, background): “In another study, increased longevity was reported among a large cohort of elderly people (Z73 years) who lived in areas of Japan with significant “walkable green spaces” (Takano et al., 2002).”