Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure

Research has established that being in green elements in the landscape affect health and well-being. This paper presents the findings whether neighborhood green infrastructure (GI) in a community’s living environment is an underlying mechanism for urban residents’ self-perceived health. To study thi...

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Main Authors:	Mansor, Mazlina, Harun, Nor Zalina, Zakariya, Khalilah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English
Published:	Elsevier 2015
Subjects:	GV Recreation Leisure HM1001 Social psychology HT Communities. Classes. Races
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spelling	iium-425542019-12-03T05:38:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42554/ Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure Mansor, Mazlina Harun, Nor Zalina Zakariya, Khalilah GV Recreation Leisure HM1001 Social psychology HT Communities. Classes. Races Research has established that being in green elements in the landscape affect health and well-being. This paper presents the findings whether neighborhood green infrastructure (GI) in a community’s living environment is an underlying mechanism for urban residents’ self-perceived health. To study this, we seek residents’ participations through their responses, in which we investigated: (a) residents’ inputs in the ways they use and perceive GI near their homes, and (b) the residents’ self-perceived health based on their reported status of health. When an association between the GI and self-perceived health was found, we analyzed whether this could explain the relationship between the two parameters. The results are important in addressing the relationship of GI with respondents’ health status. 650 residents living in Bandar Tun Razak town responded to the survey questionnaires. Bandar Tun Razak is one of the established towns within the periphery of Kuala Lumpur. The analyses suggest that residents frequently spent time in Taman Tasik Permaisuri (a recreational park), their home gardens and in open spaces in their neighborhoods. The research also found that there is an association between GI with their self-perceived health. This finding can be translated into policy on health promotion in Malaysia through landscape design and planning of urban green spaces. The study is also relevant for multi-disciplinary fields of study such as urban planning and public health promotion. Elsevier 2015-11-19 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42554/1/2014-sustain_2014-program_book.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42554/2/2014-SP-03-SUSTAIN_2014-slides.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42554/7/42554_residents%27_self_perceived.pdf Mansor, Mazlina and Harun, Nor Zalina and Zakariya, Khalilah (2015) Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure. In: The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security (SustaiN 2014), 19-21 Nov 2014, Bali, Indonesia. https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1878029615002650?token=71A3C4212264FFC51C01FFDD0953F4EF4A571F481EDD525F59A43AF588BD4C963BC113004E8878C7F2E2549F1197E8D6 10.1016/j.proenv.2015.07.053
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description	Research has established that being in green elements in the landscape affect health and well-being. This paper presents the findings whether neighborhood green infrastructure (GI) in a community’s living environment is an underlying mechanism for urban residents’ self-perceived health. To study this, we seek residents’ participations through their responses, in which we investigated: (a) residents’ inputs in the ways they use and perceive GI near their homes, and (b) the residents’ self-perceived health based on their reported status of health. When an association between the GI and self-perceived health was found, we analyzed whether this could explain the relationship between the two parameters. The results are important in addressing the relationship of GI with respondents’ health status. 650 residents living in Bandar Tun Razak town responded to the survey questionnaires. Bandar Tun Razak is one of the established towns within the periphery of Kuala Lumpur. The analyses suggest that residents frequently spent time in Taman Tasik Permaisuri (a recreational park), their home gardens and in open spaces in their neighborhoods. The research also found that there is an association between GI with their self-perceived health. This finding can be translated into policy on health promotion in Malaysia through landscape design and planning of urban green spaces. The study is also relevant for multi-disciplinary fields of study such as urban planning and public health promotion.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mansor, Mazlina Harun, Nor Zalina Zakariya, Khalilah
author_facet	Mansor, Mazlina Harun, Nor Zalina Zakariya, Khalilah
author_sort	Mansor, Mazlina
title	Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
title_short	Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
title_full	Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
title_fullStr	Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
title_full_unstemmed	Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
title_sort	residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2015
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Residents’ self-perceived health and its relationships with urban neighborhood green infrastructure

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