A Review of Research on the Impact Path of Western Urban and Community Environments on the Risk of Diabete

Abstract

The number of people with diabetes in China reached 116 million in 2019, ranking first in the world. Diabetes is a great threat to national health and socio-economic development, which requires multidisciplinary collaborative research and intervention. Based on this, this paper systematically reviews the empirical studies on the impact of urban and community environments on diabetes in western academic fields in recent years. This paper summarizes the impact path driven by influencing factors such as urbanization level, urban form, ethnic culture and residential isolation, as well as commuting mode at the city level, and that driven by influencing factors such as community food environment, community physical activity space, community and surrounding green space, community social environment, as well as noise at the community level. It is pointed out that the above-mentioned environmental factors have an indirect influence on the risk of diabetes mainly through influencing individual lifestyle, physical activity, dietary behavior, psychological stress, sleep and other behavioral and psychological factors. This paper is aimed at providing theoretical reference for the emerging empirical research on the impact of urban built environment on diabetes in China, and providing research support for Health China 2030 strategies.