Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries

• DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319
• Publication Date: 2022-05-25T07:10:14Z
• Authors: Sílvia Fernández-...; Oliver Robinson; Serena Fossati; Sandra Márquez; Xavier Basagaña; Jeroen de Bont; Montserrat de Castro; David Donaire-Gon...; Léa Maitre; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen; Dora Romaguera; José Urquiza; Leda Chatzi; Minas Iakovides; Marina Vafeiadi; Regina Grazulevic...; Audrius Dedele; Sandra Andrusaityte; Gunn Marit Aasvang; Jorunn Evandt; Norun Hjertager Krog; Johanna Lepeule; Barbara Heude; John Wright; Rosemary R.C. McE...; Franco Sassi; Paolo Vineis; Martine Vrijheid
• Keywords: Interquartile range; Level design; Screen Time

Urban environmental design is increasingly considered influential for health and wellbeing, but evidence mostly based on adults single exposure studies. We evaluated the association between a wide range of urban environment characteristics behaviours in childhood.We estimated to 32 (related built environment, traffic, natural spaces) home school addresses 1,581 children aged 6-11 years from six European cohorts. collected information including total amount overall moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, activity outside hours, active transport, sedentary sleep duration, developed patterns with principal component analysis. used an exposure-wide study screen all exposure-outcome associations, deletion-substitution-addition algorithm build final multi-exposure model.In models, green spaces (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI) were positively associated inversely time (22.71 min/day less (95 %CI -39.90, -5.51) per interquartile increase NDVI). Residence densely areas was more time, populated hours time. Presence major road lower duration (-4.80 -9.11, -0.48); compared no road). Results behavioural similar.This multicohort suggests that vegetation, building density, population density without roads are improved childhood.