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. 2017 Jun 23;14(7):675. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14070675

Table 2.

Quality of measures in analyses.

Number of Analyses Percent of Analyses
Health data quality
 Objective 115 44%
 Expert or clinical diagnosis 55 21%
 Subjective 90 35%
Greenspace measure
 Greenness a 124 48%
 Green or open space b 110 42%
 Park b 23 9%
 Tree canopy b 3 1%
Confounds included
 Education level 221 85%
 Sex 220 85%
 Age 209 80%
 Smoking behavior 78 30%
 Employment status 74 28%
 Urbanity 68 26%
 BMI 62 24%
 Race/ethnicity 60 23%
 Marital status 49 19%
 Income 44 17%
Bias Evaluation
 More likely to be biased 2 1%
 Less likely to be biased 114 44%
 Least likely to be biased 144 55%

a average value or standard deviation of NDVI; b percent land cover or number of units (i.e., parks or trees).