Carter May, Horwitz Pierre
School of Natural Sciences, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia.
Ecohealth. 2014 Sep;11(3):322-32. doi: 10.1007/s10393-014-0952-9. Epub 2014 Jun 20.
Access to parks and green spaces within residential neighbourhoods has been shown to be an important pathway to generating better physical and mental health for individuals and communities. Early research in this area often failed to identify specific attributes that contributed to reported health outcomes, with more recent research focused on exploring relationships between health outcomes and aspects of access and design. A mixed methods research project conducted in Perth, Western Australia examined the role that neighbourhood green space played in influencing residents' self-reported health status, and this paper identifies significant relationships found between perceptions of green space quality and self-reported health. It focuses on the factors that were found to be most positively associated with better health outcomes: proximity, retention, useability and visitation of neighbourhood green space.
已表明，居民区内有公园和绿地是为个人和社区带来更好身心健康的重要途径。该领域的早期研究往往未能确定导致所报告健康结果的具体属性，而最近的研究则侧重于探索健康结果与可达性和设计方面之间的关系。在西澳大利亚州珀斯进行的一个混合方法研究项目，考察了社区绿地在影响居民自我报告健康状况方面所起的作用，本文确定了绿地质量认知与自我报告健康之间的显著关系。它关注那些被发现与更好的健康结果最呈正相关的因素：社区绿地的 proximity、留存率、可用性和到访情况。 （注：“proximity”此处暂未准确翻译，可根据具体语境理解为类似“临近度”等意思）
