D'Alessandro Daniela, Buffoli Maddalena, Capasso Lorenzo, Fara Gaetano Maria, Rebecchi Andrea, Capolongo Stefano
Dip. Ingegneria civile, edile e ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.
Dip. Architettura, ingegneria delle costruzioni e ambiente costruito, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Epidemiol Prev. 2015 Jul-Aug;39(4 Suppl 1):8-13.
The green areas play an important role in improving the environmental quality and climate of the city. However, despite the undoubted importance of these areas, the benefits to public health are still under investigation.
The Authors perform a review of studies on the relationship between health and green areas and describe the main areas for which evidence on this relationship is currently available. They include: effects on air quality, on social cohesion, on mental health, with particular reference to the stress, and on physical activity.
Most of the evidence comes from cross-sectional and descriptive studies and the approaches used to measure the association show themselves to be often unsatisfactory. The Authors conclude the review stressing the need for greater integration between the different professionals involved in urban planning and in health care analysis in order to identify research approaches more appropriate to understand such complex issues, striving toward a planning design of green areas that will satisfy both environmental sustainability and health requirements.
绿地在改善城市环境质量和气候方面发挥着重要作用。然而，尽管这些区域的重要性毋庸置疑，但其对公众健康的益处仍在研究之中。
作者对健康与绿地之间关系的研究进行了综述，并描述了目前有相关证据的主要领域。这些领域包括：对空气质量的影响、对社会凝聚力的影响、对心理健康的影响（尤其涉及压力方面）以及对身体活动的影响。
大多数证据来自横断面研究和描述性研究，用于衡量这种关联的方法往往不尽人意。作者在综述结尾强调，参与城市规划和医疗保健分析的不同专业人员之间需要加强整合，以便确定更适合理解此类复杂问题的研究方法，并努力实现既能满足环境可持续性又能满足健康需求的绿地规划设计。
