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Rethinking the concept of mediation of behavior on city health and citizenship, and understanding the effective mechanisms of it
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Behavior is a reflection of the complex interaction between the physical, social, and cultural structure of the urban environment, lifestyle, and dynamic mechanisms for adaptation and survival, and directly and indirectly affects human physical, mental, and social health. However, how the behavior affects citizens' health has not been comprehensively studied so far. This study aimed to identify and analyze the mediating factors between behavior and individual and urban health. The research method is a systematic review, and a collection of international studies related to behavior and health in cities has been collected and analyzed. Then, content analysis was used to examine the repetition of codes. The findings show that citizens' behavior under six categories of socio-cultural, individual and family, physical-spatial, economic, managerial, and environmental factors affects their health. Among all these, sociocultural factors and individual and family characteristics have played the greatest role. Also, household composition, immigration, literacy, health, and lifestyle were identified as influential factors. Also, household composition, immigration, literacy, health, and lifestyle were identified as influential factors. Merely physical approaches, or infrastructure-based, are insufficient in promoting health; Because citizens' behavior is shaped by values, social relations, and economic conditions. Promoting health-oriented behaviors requires integrated policymaking at three levels: individual and family, community, and urban management. In this framework, strengthening social change in behavior, promoting justice, fostering a sense of place, expanding active transportation, and ensuring equal access to health-oriented spaces are considered key pillars of a healthy city. The important point of this research is that behavior change can cure many of the "systems of medical problems" in the field of "systems of health problems" that current human science considers to be affected by gene transfer and heredity. That means that in the fourth wave city, a large part of human health will occur in the living environment through behavioral change.
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| Keywords: Behavior, Urban Behavior, City and Citizen Health, Behaviorology, Systematic Review, Mediating Factors.. |
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Type of Study: Applicable |
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Accepted: 2025/11/27 | Published: 2025/11/27
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