Determining the health benefits of green space: does gentrification matter?
Urban green space is demonstrated to benefit human health. We evaluated whether neighborhood gentrification status matters when considering the health benefits of green space, and whether the benefits are received equitably across racial and socioeconomic groups. Greater exposure to active green space was significantly associated with lower odds of reporting fair or poor health, but only for those living in gentrifying neighborhoods. In gentrifying neighborhoods, only those with high education or high incomes benefited from neighborhood active green space. Structural interventions, such as new green space, should be planned and evaluated within the context of urban social inequity and change. ; The researched presented in this paper received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No.678034 and grant agreement No. 730243). This research contributes tothe Maria de Maetzu Unit of Excellence grant (MDM-2015-0552) at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology. In addition, JJTC was funded by the Spanish government's Juan de la Cierva incorporation fellowship (IJCI-2016-31100) and MTM was funded by the Juan dela Cierva formation fellowship (FJCI-2017-33842). The dataset used in analyses for this paper, NYC Community Health Survey, 2009–2013 was obtained from the Bureau of Epidemiology Services in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene