Published March 18, 2020
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Research Note: Residential distance and recreational visits to coastal and inland blue spaces in eighteen countries
Authors/Creators
- 1. European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom
- 2. ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- 3. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, USA
- 4. School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- 5. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland
- 6. School of Medicine, Griffith University, Australia
- 7. Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
- 8. Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland
Description
Varied categorisations of residential distance to bluespace in population health studies make comparisons difficult. Using survey data from eighteen countries, we modelled relationships between residential distance to blue spaces (coasts, lakes, and rivers), and self-reported recreational visits to these environments at least weekly, with penalised regression splines. We observed exponential declines in visit probability with increasing distance to all three environments and demonstrated the utility of derived categorisations. These categories may be broadly applicable in future research where the assumed underlying mechanism between residential distance to a blue space and a health outcome is direct recreational contact.
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