Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood

Urban residence is associated with a higher risk of some psychiatric disorders, but the underlying drivers remain unknown. There is increasing evidence that the level of exposure to natural environments impacts mental health, but few large-scale epidemiological studies have assessed the general existence and importance of such associations. Here, we investigate the prospective association between green space and mental health in the Danish population. Green space presence was assessed at the individual level using high-resolution satellite data to calculate the normalized difference vegetation index within a 210 × 210 m square around each person's place of residence (∼1 million people) from birth to the age of…

• SM
  Stanley Medical Research Institute
• AU
  Aarhus Universitet
• VF
  Villum Fonden

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