Factors Influencing Physical and Mental Health: Residential Environment and Health-Related Residential Behaviors

The literature has acknowledged that multiple factors derived from urban environments and lifestyles have crucial effects on individual’s physical and mental health. Concerning urban transition and lifestyle changing, residential suburbanization and its effects on residents’ health is a worthy subject to be explored. The risks of being obese and general physical health are inevitably in association with the way of life formulated by the living environment. Mental disorders and their causes in urban environment have been largely ignored in China’s suburban living environment.