Abstract
In a recent paper by Melis and colleagues [1], exposure to certain built environment characteristics—urban density and accessibility to public transit—is found to be related to mental health, even more so among women, the elderly, and the residentially stable (interactions between built environment and individual characteristics in relation to mental health have unfortunately not been tested statistically, which could have strengthened their demonstration).[...]
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Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City
The authors argue that this may be because these groups spend more time in their neighbourhoods [1]
Our second argument presents the possibility of systematic bias, as it appears that misclassification in exposure, or the difference between actual exposures experienced throughout daily mobilities and exposure measured in the residential environments only, should be smaller among those who spend more time in their neighbourhood, and larger if they spend more time at other locations
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Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City. Int. Such approaches try to account for non-residential exposures, by using mobility data from surveys of regular destinations [11,12] or from GPS tracking [13], by integrating information on time spent within and outside the residential neighbourhood, or by using measures of concentration of activities within/outside the residential neighbourhood [3,4].
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