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Assessment of Green Open Space's Impacts on Human Wellness in selected areas of Urban Lahore

The study aimed to investigate how green spaces in Lahore impact residents' well-being, focusing on essential amenities, reasons for visiting, and the overall significance of these spaces. It explored how the presence of green spaces influences physical and mental health, social interaction, and overall quality of life in an urban environment facing ...
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Awareness and use of a community health worker program among racial/ethnic minority adults in Philadelphia: Results from a cross‐sectional community health survey

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community health workers (CHW) programs are effective at reducing hospitalizations, improving mental health, and supporting health‐promoting behaviors. Research suggests awareness and use of CHW services remain uneven across communities nationally.
Stephen Bonett, Carmen Alvarez, José Bauermeister, Ashley Clemmons, Hyunmin Yu, Andy S. L. Tan, Terri H. Lipman, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel   +8 more
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Urban Heat Islands Mitigation by Green Open Space (GOS) Canopy Improvement: A Case of Yogyakarta Urban Area (YUA), Indonesia

International Journal of Technology, 2014
The growth of the Yogyakarta Urban Area (YUA) has led to an increasing of the microclimate, characterized by elevated temperatures. One of the efforts to decrease temperature is by establishing the development of Green Open Space (GOS). According to Law Number 26/2007 about Spatial Planning, a minimum of 30% of the total area must be designated as ...
Widodo Brontowiyono, Ribut Lupiyanto, Donan Wijaya, Joe Hamidin   +3 more
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Place‐based risk: Examining relationships between adolescent perceptions of community risk factors and adolescent substance use across geographic contexts

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mixed evidence for the influence of structural and social factors on adolescent substance use behaviors exists across the rural–urban continuum. Therefore, this study explores how adolescent perceptions of structural and social community risk factors are associated with lifetime and past 30‐day use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and ...
Melissa Pearman Fenton, Sarah D. Lynne, Josie L. Bryan, Catherine Woodstock Striley, Larry F. Forthun   +4 more
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Urban Parks Act as Refuges for Avian Biodiversity in Chaoyang District, Beijing (China). [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Ur Rahman A, Bosso L, Ahmad S, Ullah N, Zahid M, Ismaili RRR.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Identification of surface and ambient temperature to review the potential green open space in urban area [PDF]

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018
null Santi, Siti Belinda, Hapsa Rianty
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Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn, Emma J. Sacks, Kayla Fike   +2 more
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Measuring children's spatial accessibility to urban park green spaces. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mohammadi A, Moghabeli R, Ahmed A, Bergquist R, Rocha J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Analysis tools for green infrastructure in urban areas and open land

, 2014
Attila Tóth, Ľubica Feriancová
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Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari, Colleen S. Walsh, L. Taylor Stevens, Jasmine N. Coleman, Alice Ellyson, Phillip N. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source