Emma Charlott Andersson Nordbø

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Background Understanding the factors that influence school travel mode choice is essential for promoting active travel among adolescents. Currently, there is a lack of research that effectively investigates the interactions between demographic and environmental factors on travel behavior. We aimed to investigate the associations between various dem...

Aim To investigate the associations between social sustainability factors and people’s satisfaction with their local community as a place to live now and in the future. Methods This study used data from the Norwegian County Public Health Survey conducted in Viken County, Norway, in 2021 ( N = 97,323). The survey included questions concerning physi...

The aim of this paper is to argue for the need to bridge the discourses of health promotion and social sustainability as an important step toward healthy community development. By building on theories and empirical knowledge from both disciplines, we advocate for the field of health promotion to take a more assertive role within the social sustaina...

Background Trust is described as the glue of healthy societies. Although Norway is among the countries with the highest levels of trust in public institutions, the increasing socioeconomic differences observed may threaten levels of institutional trust. Therefore, we aimed to investigate such differences in the general population between 2011 and 2...

Aims: Both social sustainability and health promotion emphasize the development of local communities that satisfy human needs and enhance health and well-being. This scoping review aimed to identify frameworks, components, and operationalizations of social sustainability described in peer-reviewed articles and systematize the results from a health...

Urban meeting places contribute to the city’s vitality and social sustainability, and cities are encouraged to provide spaces for people to socialise. Furthermore, social interaction and support are important for people’s health and wellbeing, and urban commons are part of the social infrastructure that can improve public health. Even though shoppi...

The book chapter summarizes the most important methods, models and guidelines - hereinafter referred to as NORD tools - included in each component of the NORD framework (NUMBERING, OBSERVING, REGULATING, DESIGNING) in the book "Green and Healthy Nordic Cities: How to Plan, Design and Manage Health-Promoting Urban Green Space". The chapter summarize...

This handbook is the culmination of the NORDGREEN project, which develops and implements smart planning and management solutions for well-designed, high-quality green spaces that promote health and well-being. Researchers and practitioners worked alongside one another in six Nordic cities: Aarhus (Denmark), Espoo and Ii (Finland), Stavanger (Norway...

Long-term illness and disease are major public health challenges in Norway influencing people's wellbeing. Social capital is known to be associated with good health and wellbeing, however people with long-term illness and disease have increased risk of less participation and social isolation. Thus, more knowledge about how social capital is associa...

Recreation in green spaces has seen a pervasive decrease during the last two decades, particularly in urban areas, suggesting a shift away from contact with nature in Western countries. There is some evidence that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased recreational mobility in urban green spaces during the initial phases of the pand...

In recent years, there has been growing concern about the decline in human greenspace use and nature-based recreation in Western countries. While some evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased recreational mobility in urban greenspaces, it is unclear whether the pandemic led to nationwide changes in greenspace use in both densel...

In recent years, there has been growing concern about the decline in human green space use and nature-based recreation in Western countries. While some evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased recreational mobility in urban green spaces, it is unclear whether the pandemic led to nationwide changes in green space use in both den...

Background Despite the well-known health benefits of regular physical activity, inactivity remains a major public health concern. Understanding how the built environment can encourage physical activity is therefore important to inform current policy strategies for creating activity-friendly neighborhoods. This study aimed to examine whether neighbo...

Shopping centres function as meeting places, and people are using them for various non-shopping purposes. Knowledge about different social spaces, and how they are used and perceived, is important for understanding health and wellbeing in the community and for developing health promoting societies. This scoping review provides an overview of existi...

There is scarce insight into the role of the built environment for children's subjective well-being. In an attempt to increase our knowledge on this matter, we conducted a cross-sectional study comprising 23,043 children from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. Information about children's leisure activities and their moods and feelings we...

Objective: The objective of this review was to identify, evaluate, and synthesize the findings on built-environment determinants and their relation to participation in different domains of activities, including physical activity, recreational and social activities, and wellbeing in childhood and adolescence. Introduction: Creating supportive env...

Background: A rapidly growing body of research suggests that qualities of the built environment can promote active living among children and youth. Nevertheless, shortcomings in the current evidence for understanding which built environment characteristics provide opportunities for taking part in activities in childhood remain. This study aimed to...

Studies increasingly use geographic information systems (GISs) to assess the impact of built environments on health in childhood. The extensive range of GIS measures and operational definitions of the built environment determinants, as well as definitions of the geographic areas of exposure, entail methodological challenges that need to be addresse...

PurposeHigh comorbidity has been reported among persons with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), but the occurrence of subjective health complaints (SHCs) in these patient groups is poorly understood. The study aimed to describe the prevalence of SHCs among individuals with psoriasis and PsA in Norway, and investigate whether the severity of t...