Urban planning to promote health of women in Mashhad using vitamin G

This study emphasizes the effect of urban planning to promote physical and psychological health among women in Mashhad using vitamin G. The relationship between green spaces, physical activity, and physical health as well as psychological health was identified and the research model was drawn accordingly. Amos structural equations model software was used. The research samples included 400 women from Mashhad and data were collected by a questionnaire. Since the first cause of death among women in Mashhad was blood circulation diseases in 2013, the residence address of the dead (1680 addresses in full) was specified on GIS in order to determine the appropriate places to fill out the questionnaire. Then, the obtained spatial distribution was placed over the income zoning map of Mashhad and, ultimately, 9 neighborhoods were selected. Based on the indices of RMSEA=0.074 and F=0.02, the research results showed the correspondence of the designed model to the data of the studied population. Effects of green spaces on physical activity, physical activity on psychological and physical health, and psychological health on physical health were also confirmed. About constituting dimensions of green spaces, dimensions of facilities and protection had maximum effect.