Abstract Purpose of Review The volume of public health environmental justice (EJ) research
produced by academic institutions increased through 2022. However, the methods used for …

Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities
suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed …

With rapid urbanization, built environment has emerged as a set of modifiable factors of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize …

The urban heat island (UHI) effect is strongly modulated by urban-scale changes to the
aerodynamic, thermal, and radiative properties of the Earth's land surfaces. Interest in this …

Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with early onset of chronic diseases and
reduced life expectancy. The involvement of neighborhood-level factors in defining cancer …

Neighborhood greenness is of growing importance to understand the quality of urban life,
including outcomes tied to health and well-being. However, all greenness may not lead to …

Background Few longitudinal studies evaluated the beneficial associations between
cumulative residential greenness and site-specific cancer. Our objective was to evaluate the …

Background There are more than 32 million cancer survivors worldwide. The built
environment is one of the contextual factors that may influence cancer survivorship …

Background: Growing evidence suggests that neighborhood contextual environment could
influence risk factors and, therefore, incidence of lethal prostate cancer. We studied the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on the intersection of socio-economic,
demographic, and environmental factors with public health, particularly in the context of …