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Dr Hongwei Dong, Associate Professor in city and regional planning at California State University, Fresno, shares his latest research on mental health and wellbeing in Beijing. A study by China's CDC shows that more than 100 million people in China have mental health problems and more than 16 million have severe mental illness. At the same time, China is experiencing fast urbanization and more than 100 Chinese cities now have more than 1 million residents. Can we promote people’s mental wellbeing through better design of our urban neighborhoods? In order to answer this question, our research team conducted a case study in Beijing, the capital city in China. The results of this study are published in Landscape and Urban Planning. The survey Our study focuses on 16 typical Beijing neighborhoods that were identified by senior urban planners from Beijing Municipal Government. Survey questionnaires were brought to the 16 neighborhoods at the end of 2015. Survey participants described their mental wellbeing and evaluated both the built and social environments of their neighborhoods. The survey results suggest that mental wellbeing varies widely in the studied neighborhoods (the neighborhood that reported the best mental wellbeing scored about 50% higher than the lowest). Residents living in neighborhoods that are further away from the city center tended to have slightly better mental wellbeing. So what explains such variation? To answer this question, we measured and tested a series of factors that potentially influence people’s mental wellbeing: 1) Perceived neighborhood built environment, such as availability of green space, walkability, neighborhood safety, neighborhood accessibility to a variety of destinations, and easiness of driving and parking 2) Perceived neighborhood social cohesion which is measured based on whether and how people get along and help each other in a neighborhood 3) Observed neighborhood built environment such as land use density, mixed land use, and distance to the nearest park 4) a series of personal characteristics such as physical health, age, education, family structure, home and vehicle ownership, etc. Neighbourhood social environment is most associated with mental wellbeing It turns out that neighborhood social environment exerts a stronger influence on people’s mental wellbeing than neighborhood physical environment. People who reported better interpersonal relationships in their neighborhoods tended to have better mental wellbeing. Such a positive association, however, was weaker in newer neighborhoods that were built after 2000. We suspect that this is likely because social interactions and mutual assistance are declining when housing is being commercialized in newer neighborhoods. It could also be due to the fact that it takes time to form a close-knit neighborhood. Living near a park was the main physical environment association with mental wellbeing A few physical environment factors can also lead to better mental wellbeing. Consistent with previous findings, living close to a park helps to promote mental health. Land use density and mixed use, however, did not seem to have an impact on residents’ mental wellbeing, after taking into account of other variables. Satisfaction with neighborhood built environment had only a marginal positive effect on mental wellbeing. On the other hand, when asked if neighborhood built environment is important or very important, a majority of respondents said yes. This study found that neighborhood physical environment is important for residents, but has a minor role in determining their mental wellbeing. This finding is puzzling for us and may require more research. The question of cars Lastly, the study reveals a challenge that Beijing’s urban designers and planners have to face: with a quick increase of vehicle ownership, should neighborhoods be designed to be conducive for the use of private cars? Our study finds that residents who own cars tend to feel better when they live in neighborhoods that are conducive for driving and parking but vice versa for residents who don’t own cars. Designers and planners have to decide how to make a balance between walkability and easiness of driving in a neighborhood. Read the full research paper Note: Access to this journal paper requires payment Dong, H., & B. Qin. 2017. Exploring the Link between Neighborhood Environment and Mental Wellbeing: A Case Study in Beijing, China. Landscape and Urban Planning, 164: 71-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.04.005 About the Author
Dr B A Arvind
11/3/2018 01:44:56 am
I am associate professor in the department of Epidemiology at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India. Abstract of your article interested me as i exploring the issues of urban mental health in Indian context. Access to full article would be useful to understand urban mental health issues in greater detail. hence requesting you to share the complete article, which will be useful for my review.
Mato Ray
3/29/2022 01:37:45 am
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Shannon Mattingly
4/4/2022 06:24:11 am
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Caillo Lisa
6/4/2021 01:46:30 pm
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Michael DeBruin
8/27/2021 06:04:50 am
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Wilson Fox
6/9/2022 01:55:57 am
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Mark William
7/18/2022 09:52:33 pm
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Laura Hobson
12/20/2022 10:51:58 am
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Manuel Franco
3/27/2023 06:38:13 am
Amelia Jackson
4/19/2023 12:48:36 pm
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Mavis Wanczyk
7/16/2023 11:01:35 pm
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10/4/2023 12:05:27 pm
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10/4/2023 12:06:40 pm
HOW I GOT CURED FROM PCOS & OVARIAN CYST.
10/4/2023 12:07:23 pm
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10/4/2023 12:07:56 pm
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10/4/2023 12:09:02 pm
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10/4/2023 12:10:03 pm
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10/12/2023 04:18:32 pm
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Rachel Frye
12/6/2023 10:04:54 pm
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12/19/2023 07:02:51 pm
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12/19/2023 07:03:20 pm
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HOW TO STOP DIVORCES
12/19/2023 07:04:17 pm
Now You Can Stop Your Break Up, Divorce or Lovers Rejection… Even If Your Situation Seems Hopeless! My husband said he no longer loved me at the end of January this year and i was hurt and heart broken i felt like my life was about to end and I almost committed suicide, I was emotionally down for a very long time. Thanks to a spell caster called DR HUNTERS ALVIN, which I meet online, on one faithful day, as I was browsing through the internet and I came across a lot of testimonies about this particular spell caster. Some people testified that he brought their Ex lover back, some testified that he restores womb, cure cancer and other sickness, some testified that he can cast a spell to stop divorce and so on. I also come across one particular testimony and it was about a woman called Tracey Hilton, she testified about how he brought back her Ex lover in less than 2 days and at the end of her testimony she dropped DR HUNTERS ALVIN mail address. After reading all these,I decided to give it a try and I contacted him via email and explained my problem to him. In just 48 hours, my husband came back to me and we solved our issues, we are even happier than before. DR HUNTERS ALVIN is really a gifted man and I will not stop testifying about him because he is a wonderful man and so powerful... If you have any problem and you are looking for solution to solve all your problems. Great DR HUNTERS ALVIN can also offer any types of help like Reuniting of marriage and relationship, Curing of all types of Diseases, Court Cases, Pregnancy Spell, Spiritual protection,winning of lottery and lot's more. you can contact him on Email: [email protected] OR [email protected] .... YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE EMAILS....... YOU CAN ALSO ADD HIM UP ON WHATSAPP USING THIS MOBILE NUMBER:+2347059232579, if you have any problem contact him, I give you 100% guarantee that he will help you.
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12/19/2023 07:04:35 pm
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12/19/2023 07:05:18 pm
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12/19/2023 07:05:59 pm
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12/19/2023 07:06:31 pm
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HOW I GOT MY WIFE BACK
12/19/2023 07:07:12 pm
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PENIS ENLARGEMENT, WEAK ERECTION, FEEL LIKE A KING IN BED
12/19/2023 07:07:45 pm
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ARE YOU SICK? HAS THE MEDICAL DOCTORS TOLD YOU THERE IS NO CURE?
12/19/2023 07:08:28 pm
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12/19/2023 07:09:45 pm
HOW I GET FREE FROM HERPES AFTER 8 DAYS
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12/19/2023 07:11:36 pm
I was been suffering hard Shipley from HIV / AIDS since 6 years now, and i happen to have 2 kids for my husband, and now we cannot proceed to have another kids all because of my disease and now i have to do all what a human like i and my husband can do just to get my disease healed, i have went to several places to seek for help not even one person could ever help, until i melt a comment on the daily news paper that was commented by Ms Tracey about how this powerful traditional doctor help her get cured of the disease (HIV- AIDS) "my fellow beloved" i firstly taught having a help from a spiritual traditional healer was a wrong idea, but i think of these, will i continue to stress on these disease all day when i have someone to help me save my life? "so i gather all my faiths and put in all interest to contact him through his Email address ( [email protected] OR [email protected] .... YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE EMAILS... ) so after i have mailed him of helping me to cured my disease, he respond to me fast as possible that i should not be afraid, that he is a truthful and powerful doctor which i firstly claimed him to be. So after all set has been done, he promise me that i will be healed but on a condition that i provide him some items and obeyed all he said. I did all by accepting his oracle fact and only to see that the following week DR HUNTERS ALVIN mailed me on my mail box that my work is successfully done, he sent me the medicine through UPS SPEED POST. I took the medicine as prescribed by him and 14 days later he ask for medical test i was first shocked and later arise to be the happiest woman on earth after i have concluded my final test in the hospital by my doctor that i am now HIV-Negative. My papers for check are with me and now i am happy and glad for his miraculous help and power. With these i must to everyone who might seek for any help, either for HIV cure or much more to contact him now at this Email:( [email protected] OR [email protected] .... YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE EMAILS... ) "sir thank you so much for your immediate cure of my disease, i must say for curing my disease, i owe you in return. Thanks and be blessed sir .CONTACT HIM NOW: [email protected] OR [email protected] .... YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE EMAILS.................YOU CAN ALSO ADD HIM UP ON WHATSAPP USING THIS MOBILE NUMBER:+2347059232579
HOW I GOT MY HUSBAND BACK WITH THE HELP OF DR HUNTERS ALVIN
12/19/2023 07:13:04 pm
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Manuel Franco
1/20/2024 03:49:15 pm
I just want to say Thank You to everyone who supported me through the years. My name is Manuel Franco, New Berlin, Wisconsin. My story of how I won the Powerball lottery of $768.4M is a bit of a tale. I have been playing Powerball tickets for 6 years now since I turned 18. I bought my first ticket on my 18 birthday. I was feeling very lucky that day because I had contacted Dr. Odunga Michael to help me with the winning Powerball numbers. I really had that great great feeling that I looked at the camera wanting to wink at it. I only did a tiny part of it and trusted him. He gave me the numbers after I played a couple other tickets along with it for $10. I checked my ticket after the winnings came online and saw the numbers were correct including the Power play. I screamed for about 10 minutes because it felt like a dream. I had won $768.4M. You can check my winning testimony with the lottery officials just with my name search. Thank you Dr Odunga. Well, his email is [email protected] and you can also call or Whats-app him at +2348167159012 so you guys can contact him Comments are closed.
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