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How Does Neighborhood Investment Affect Residents' Health and Well-Being?

Jun 8, 2021

RAND's PHRESH project has been studying how investments in two Pittsburgh neighborhoods affect diet, sleep, health, and well-being. We've learned that when residents are involved in decisions, communities can become healthier and happier.
Essay

Stress Accumulates in Marginalized Communities, Generation After Generation

Jul 8, 2020

Psychologists and biologists have known for years that prolonged stress is toxic to the human body. A better understanding of how stress builds in communities—and the burden it puts on them—can lead to more effective policies to address it.

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Journal Article

Effects of Park-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review

Using adapted methods from the Community Guide, a systematic review (search period through September 2019) was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of park-based interventions among adults.

Apr 28, 2021
Journal Article

Use and Non-Use Values of Auckland Council Amenities: Final Report

Auckland Council commissioned this study to quantify how much the public use and value local amenities. To fulfill the study needs, a survey was undertaken with Auckland residents to collect data on their usage of these amenities.

Dec 10, 2020
Journal Article

Improved Street Walkability, Incivilities, and Esthetics Are Associated with Greater Park Use in Two Low-Income Neighborhoods

Improved walkability, incivilities, and aesthetics surrounding parks in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods were associated with greater park use and may help increase visits to underutilized parks.

Dec 3, 2020
Report

Recovery Planning for Natural Resources and Parks in Puerto Rico: Natural and Cultural Resources Sector Report, Volume I

The 2017 hurricanes harmed Puerto Rico's natural resources. Recommended courses of action, detailed in this report, would restore natural resources, manage solid waste, renew parks, and improve economic opportunities. Damage is characterized.

Sep 30, 2020
Journal Article

The Mediating Role of Perceived Crime in Gender and Built Environment Associations with Park Use and Park-Based Physical Activity Among Park Users in High Poverty Neighborhoods

This study conducted mediation analyses to examine the effects of gender and presence of park walking path on park use, participation in park programs, and park-based physical activity through the hypothesized mediator (perception of crime).

Apr 30, 2020
Commentary

Green Infrastructure in Los Angeles: An Olympian Feat

Los Angeles has an opportunity to reinvent itself by harnessing the collective spirit of Olympics development, climate activism, and Measure W funding. No single project can address all LA's environmental needs, but many diverse projects could provide an opportunity for synergies and to create a new “city feel,” the way palm trees, traffic, and movie-touting billboards do now.

Feb 11, 2020
Journal Article

Playground Features and Physical Activity in U.S. Neighborhood Parks

This study of a nationally representative sample of neighborhood parks assessed the characteristics, design, and use of public playgrounds by all age groups.

Dec 12, 2019
Journal Article

Reliability and Validity of Environmental Audits Using GigaPan Technology in Parks

GigaPan is a comprehensive technology that could provide solutions to several issues that arise with GSV and DO. GigaPan provides detailed images of parks, as well as acts as a quick method to capture images during temporal changes in the area. This study may provide insight into other technologies, such as some smartphone capacities, that may be used to measure the BE by taking similar panoramic images.

Jun 10, 2019
Journal Article

When Neighborhoods Matter: Developmental Timing and Youth Reading Achievement and Problem Behaviors

Consistent evidence links neighborhood socioeconomic status with children's development outcomes. However, it is less clear whether or when neighborhoods are most strongly associated with children's outcomes.

Jun 5, 2019
Brochure

What Is the Impact of NYPD's Neighborhood Policing?

In 2018, RAND researchers began an evaluation to assess the effects of the New York City Police Department's Neighborhood Policing philosophy on public safety and the public's trust in police. The results of this work will be available in 2021.

Feb 6, 2019
Brochure

RAND in Pittsburgh: Using Research and Analysis to Strengthen Pittsburgh and Improve the Well-Being of Communities Throughout the Region

RAND is using research and analysis, including in health, education, and community resilience, to help make Pittsburgh stronger and improve the well-being of individuals, families, and communities in Pittsburgh and throughout the region.

Dec 10, 2018
Journal Article

Ethnography, Neighborhood Effects, and the Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods Across Cities

Heterogeneity across cities has increased: the experience of neighborhood poverty is likely to depend more today than in 1990 on the city in question.

Nov 1, 2018
Report

Conceptualizing Community Stress

Understanding existing stress levels within a community can help inform how it responds to acute or traumatic events. RAND researchers outlined a framework to determine cumulative community stress and how it may affect public health and community resilience.

Jun 29, 2018
Report

Will School Renovations Impact Students, Teachers, and Communities?

Baltimore will renovate or replace more than two dozen public school buildings. How could these changes affect students, school staff, school conditions, and the surrounding community?

May 22, 2018
Report

How Can Parks Help Increase Physical Activity?

Public neighborhood parks play an important role in providing venues for physical activity in urban areas. But they tend to be underutilized, especially for moderate to vigorous exercise.

May 7, 2018
Journal Article

Robustness of Decision-Making Competence: Evidence from Two Measures and an 11-Year Longitudinal Study

Behavioral decision research has traditionally examined how experimental manipulations evoke general cognitive processes; however, it is both feasible and valuable to study individual differences and their relationships to real-world antecedents, concomitants, and consequences.

Jan 12, 2018
Journal Article

Pathways Through Which Higher Neighborhood Crime Is Longitudinally Associated with Greater Body Mass Index

Among African-Americans in urban, low-income neighborhoods, lack of perceived safety because of high crime rates is associated with higher body mass index (BMI).

Dec 15, 2017
Journal Article

Gender Disparities in Park Use and Physical Activity Among Residents of High-Poverty Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

Despite similar proximity to parks and controlling for a range of individual, park- and neighborhood-level factors, women in high-poverty neighborhoods experience consistent disparities in park use and PA as compared with men.

Dec 11, 2017
Journal Article

Attitudes and Barriers to Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: A Latent Profile Analysis

Psychosocial interventions for diet and physical activity could be more effective if they specifically target the unique profile of influences on an individual's diet and physical activity.

Sep 28, 2017

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