Effects of green urban regeneration on chronic disease patients

Abstract

This body of work consists of a literary overview on the latest conditions of chronic disease, on the trend of urban area greening policies and the effect of the latter on chronic disease patients. Chronic illnesses are affecting a greater percentage of the ever-aging population. Urbanization is a modern human life formation that is prevalent in all large economies and progressively concerns larger populations worldwide. Urbanization though is linked with various risk factors for chronic disease. Green spaces in urban environments are proven to have beneficiary effects on the general population’s health, and hence on chronic disease patients. More funding is needed to verify the exact correlation between specific characteristics of green space and the effects on human health, as well as to the expansion and amelioration of existing green spaces in urban environment.