More interdisciplinary research about person-place interactions is needed to create health-promoting urban environments (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED This viewpoint discusses how interdisciplinary assessment methods of person-place benefits the socio-ecological perspective in urban health research. It starts with an overview on previous findings, which address relationships of environmental features to physical activity and mental health outcomes. We emphasize the need for appropriate approaches to assess time-sensitive associations to adequately investigate person-place interactions. Finally, we focus on ambulatory assessments and conclude that they can be improved by using a triggered design to capture data in situations where a strong contextual effect is assumed and by combining data and knowledge from different disciplines.