Urban green spaces, self-rated air pollution and health: A sensitivity analysis of green space characteristics and proximity in four European cities Cardinali, Marcel Beenackers, Mariëlle A. Timmeren, Arjan van Pottgiesser, Uta Greenspace Mitigation Air quality Public health Structural equation modelling Exploring the influence of green space characteristics and proximity on health via air pollution mitigation, our study analysed data from 1,365 participants across Porto, Nantes, Sofia, and H & oslash;je-Taastrup. Utilizing OpenStreetMap and the AID-PRIGSHARE tool, we generated nine green space indicators around residential addresses at 15 distances, ranging from 100m to 1500m. We performed a mediation analysis for these 135 green space variables and revealed significant associations between self-rated air pollution and self-rated health for specific green space characteristics. In our study, indirect positive effects on health via air pollution were mainly associated with green corridors in intermediate Euclidean distances (800-1,000m) and the amount of accessible green spaces in larger network distances (1,400-1,500m). Our results suggest that the amount of connected green spaces measured in intermediate surroundings seems to be a prime green space characteristic that could drive the air pollution mitigation pathway to health. Elsevier BV 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/other doc-type:other text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843 https://www.th-owl.de/elsa/record/12830 Cardinali M, Beenackers MA, Timmeren A van, Pottgiesser U. Urban green spaces, self-rated air pollution and health: A sensitivity analysis of green space characteristics and proximity in four European cities. <i>  Health &#38; place : an international journal ; a social science &#38; medicine publication</i>. 2024;89. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103300">10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103300</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103300 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1353-8292 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1873-2054 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/001260448200001 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/38924920 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess