Publications

Social Sciences

Socio-demographic and socio-economic disparities in the availability of green space in the Netherlands. Population and Environment

Liu, M., Timmermans, E.J., Wagtendonk, A., Meijer, P., Grobbee, D.E., & Vaartjes, I.
Population and Environment (2025)

Green space visits among Turkish and South Asian Surinamese women with a high cardiometabolic risk living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Netherlands: motives, means and prerequisites

Lieke van den Brekel, Helene R. Voogdt-Pruis, Lian Wispelweij, Laxmie Jawalapershad, Soerinder Narain, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Diederick E. Grobbee, Virissa Lenters, Joreintje D. Mackenbach and Ilonca Vaartjes
International Journal for Equity in Health (2024)

Decoding the exposome

Decoding the exposome

The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...

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