/library/oar/handle/123456789/38907 2025-11-02T19:09:58Z 2025-11-02T19:09:58Z Satariano, Bernadine Curtis, Sarah E. /library/oar/handle/123456789/114472 2023-10-24T13:31:37Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Lifecourse of place, and intergenerational transmission of health determinants : a long-term view of factors affecting health in two deprived areas in Malta Authors: Satariano, Bernadine; Curtis, Sarah E. Abstract: Using an approach framed by health geography perspectives (including the idea of ‘lifecourse of place’ as a health determinant), this study explores how the wellbeing of residents interviewed in two parts of Malta between 2013‒2015 were found to be influenced by the physical, economic and social aspects of their place of residence, which had been generated over the long-term life-course of the place. Both study areas are relatively deprived, compared with the country of Malta as a whole, for reasons which we show to be partly associated with long term political and economic processes influencing the ‘lifecourse of place’ in these neighbourhoods. However, we also demonstrate how historically determined processes such as development of the built structure of neighbourhoods, political events, development of labour markets and employment practices, together with evolution of cultural norms, social processes and features of social capital have developed in rather different ways in the two study areas. We argue that this helps to explain why the contemporary local conditions that are seen by local residents to be important for their health and wellbeing also differ in some ways between the two places. This study therefore emphasises how and why historic development of conditions in places matter for the contemporary determinants of health and wellbeing.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Satariano, Bernadine Cole, Maureen Sollars, Valerie Hili Vassallo, Sandra Schembri, Xanthe’ /library/oar/handle/123456789/99383 2022-07-15T07:56:49Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Fil-Beraħ : l-esperjenzi tat-tfal tal-użu ta’ spazji pubbliċi [sett ta’ għodod : kif tinvolvi lit-tfal u liż-żgħażagħ fid-disinn ta’ spazji miftuħa] Authors: Satariano, Bernadine; Cole, Maureen; Sollars, Valerie; Hili Vassallo, Sandra; Schembri, Xanthe’ Abstract: Jista’ jkun hemm diversi spazji pubbliċi f’viċinat li jinkludu l-madwar immedjat tal-viċinat, it-toroq, il-pjazez, il-parks lokali, l-ispazji għal-logħob tat-tfal u ambjenti naturali differenti. L-esperjenza ta’ spazji pubbliċi miftuħa hija importanti għat-tfal peress li tipprovdilhom l-ewwel opportunità indipendenti biex jiffurmaw relazzjonijiet ma’ nies li mhumiex membri tal-familja tagħhom. Dan is-sett ta’ għodod huwa prodott ta’ proġett ta’ riċerka li ppromwova r-riċerka parteċipattiva u ffoka fuq il-ġbir ta’ għarfien dwar il-fehmiet u l-esperjenzi tat-tfal dwar l-ispazju fuq barra fi ħdan il-lokalità tagħhom stess. Il-proġett kien jiddependi fuq il-parteċipazzjoni sħiħa tat-tfal u ż-żgħażagħ u l-metodi diversi adottati biex tinġabar id-data, kienu mmexxija mit-tfal. Dan il-proġett ta’ riċerka kien maħsub biex iservi bħala proġett pilota. Billi jiġu estrapolati l-prinċipji ġenerali segwiti u t-tagħlimiet meħuda, dan is-sett ta’ għodod ġie żviluppat biex jgħin lil oħrajn li jixtiequ jwettqu proġetti simili fejn it-tfal jistgħu jipparteċipaw fl-esplorazzjoni tal-użu, l-ippjanar u d-disinn ta’ spazji pubbliċi miftuħa. Il-lokalità magħżula għall-proġett intgħażlet minħabba popolazzjoni b’ħafna tfal, il-preżenza ta’ spazji blu u ħodor, u l-possibbiltà li offriet għad-disinn ta’ spazju miftuħ mit-tfal u ż-żgħażagħ.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Satariano, Bernadine /library/oar/handle/123456789/99324 2022-07-14T09:19:05Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Recreating a therapeutic blue urban space through the architectural restoration of the Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta Authors: Satariano, Bernadine Abstract: The presence of urban blue space is highly important for human health and wellbeing even more so within densely built-up environments and the semi-arid climatic conditions in Malta. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews this study explores the subjective value of the Triton water fountain at the entrance of the capital city Valletta, and its relationship with health and wellbeing. It explores the Maltese inhabitants’ perceptions and experiences of the fountain and square before restoration, the attributes that make the fountain and the square therapeutic following restoration; and the nostalgic memories that connect the past and present experiences of the place. This paper maintains that restoration and conservation are highly important for the therapeutic experiences of urban environments as they enable people to enjoy aesthetic attributes, reduce their feelings of inequality, and increase the possible experiences of biophilia, topophilia, a sense of identity, a sense of place and pride.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Satariano, Bernadine /library/oar/handle/123456789/99323 2022-07-14T09:17:04Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The complexity of social participation and its variable effects on the health and wellbeing of people living in deprived Maltese neighborhoods Authors: Satariano, Bernadine Abstract: Social participation is considered as an aspect of social capital that creates opportunities of gathering with people in the neighborhood influencing health and wellbeing positively. However, few studies emphasize that it can operate in multiple dimensions within a community and that it can impact on health and wellbeing variably. Applying the theory of complexity, this study highlights that as much as it can help individuals beneficially it can also cause them to experience detrimental effects on their health and wellbeing. Using qualitative, indepth interviews with participant and non-participant adults and children living in two deprived neighborhoods in Malta, this study contributes by emphasizing how features of social participation do not operate in a linear way but in an intricate, diverse, dynamic, and always evolving manner. Therefore, the effects of social participation on health and wellbeing are highly complex, dynamic across generations, and contingent to people and place

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