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Does land use and landscape contribute to self-harm? A sustainability cities framework
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Self-harm has become one of the leading causes of mortality in developed countries.
The overall rate for suicide in Canada is 11.3 per 100,000 according to Statistics Canada in 2015.
Between 2000 and 2007 the lowest rates of suicide in Canada were in Ontario, one of the most
urbanized regions in Canada. However, the interaction between land use, landscape and self-harm
has not been significantly studied for urban cores. It is thus of relevance to understand the impacts of
land-use and landscape on suicidal behavior. This paper takes a spatial analytical approach to assess
the occurrence of self-harm along one of the densest urban cores in the country: Toronto. Individual
self-harm data was gathered by the National Ambulatory Care System (NACRS) and geocoded into
census tract divisions. Toronto’s urban landscape is quantified at spatial level through the calculation
of its land use at di erent levels: (i) land use type, (ii) sprawl metrics relating to (a) dispersion and
(b) sprawl/mix incidence; (iii) fragmentation metrics of (a) urban fragmentation and (b) density and
(iv) demographics of (a) income and (b) age. A stepwise regression is built to understand the most
influential factors leading to self-harm from this selection generating an explanatory model.
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Self-harm Landscape impacts Spatial analysis Canada
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MDPI