Ho, Hung Chak, Guo, Huagui, Chan, Ta-Chien, Shi, Yuan 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4011-8735, Webster, Chris and Fong, Kenneth NK
(2022)
Community planning for a "healthy built environment" via a human-environment nexus? A multifactorial assessment of environmental characteristics and age-specific stroke mortality in Hong Kong.
CHEMOSPHERE, 287 (Pt 3).
132043-.
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Abstract
With the prevalence of stroke rising due to both aging societies and more people getting strokes at a younger age, a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between urban characteristics and age-specific stroke mortality for the development of a healthy built environment is necessary. Specifically, assessment of various dimensions of urban characteristics (e.g. short-term environmental change, long-term environmental conditions) is needed for healthy built environment designs and protocols. A multifactorial assessment was conducted to evaluate associations between environmental and sociodemographic characteristics with age-stroke mortality in Hong Kong. We found that short-term (and temporally varying) daily PM<sub>10</sub>, older age and being female were more strongly associated with all types of stroke deaths compared to all-cause deaths in general. Colder days, being employed and being married were more strongly associated with hemorrhagic stroke deaths in general. Long-term (and spatially varying) regional-level air pollution were more strongly associated with non-hemorrhagic stroke deaths in general. These associations varied by age. Employment (manual workers) and low education were risk factors for stroke mortality at younger ages (age <65). Greenness and open space did not have a significant association with stroke mortality. Since a significant connection was expected, this leads to questions about the health-inducing efficacy of Hong Kong's compact open spaces (natural greenery being limited to steep slopes, and extensive impervious surfaces on public open spaces). In conclusion, urban plans and designs for stroke mortality prevention should implement age-specific health care to neighborhoods with particular population segments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Stroke, Mortality, Urban characteristics, Age-specific, High-density, Asia |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2022 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 20:55 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132043 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3159251 |
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