Background: While depression is a growing public health issue, the percentage of
individuals with depression receiving treatment is low. Physical and social attributes of the …

Background: There is growing evidence that neighborhood environments are related to
depressive mood in the general population. Older adults may be even more vulnerable to …

Although residential environment might be an important predictor of depression among
older adults, systematic reviews point to a lack of longitudinal investigations, and the …

Purpose This realist review seeks to elucidate the modifiable causal pathways through
which neighborhoods affect depressive symptoms in adult populations. Methods Studies …

Objective: Older adults who live alone are more likely to report feelings of depression than
those who live with a spouse or other family members. This study examines the effects of …

Unipolar major depression ranks among the leading contributors to the global burden of
disease. Although established risk factors for depression include a variety of individual-level …

Objective This study examined the impact of built environment (BE) attributes on depression
in older men to determine whether associations were independent of neighborhood …

BackgroundStudies on neighbourhood characteristics and depression show equivocal
results. AimsThis large-scale pooled analysis examines whether urbanisation …

A review of published observational studies of neighbourhoods and depression/depressive
symptoms was conducted to inform future directions for the field. Forty-five English-language …

Background and aims: The notion that environment affects mental health has a long history;
in this systematic review, we aimed to study whether the living environment is related to …