Walkability and Health
Neighborhood walkability, fear and risk of falling and response to walking promotion: The Easy Steps to Health 12-month randomized controlled trial
... perceived walkability (i.e., lowest tertile on the walkability scale) and self-rated health, mobility, walking self-ef fi cacy, fall history and FOF were examined in bivariate analyses using baseline ...
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Steps Forward: Review and Recommendations for Research on Walkability, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health
... between walkability and CVD, including not only physical activity, but also air quality improvements from reduced vehicle mileage and enhanced neighborhood social cohesion from unplanned interactions; (4) testing ...
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Factorial validity of an abbreviated Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for seniors in the Nurses’ Health Study
... Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) cohort, which started in 1976 with 121,701 mar- ried nurses aged 30 to 55 years living in 11 of the most populous ...answer health-related questions with accuracy and would be ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5282825.pdf
... neighborhood walkability to be moderately associated with certain aspects of cardiometabolic health in a sample of 1,079 middle-aged adults who moved residential locations between 2000 and ...
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Walkability as key strategy in improving weld quay legibility
... that walkability plays a big role at supporting the key elements that define legibility of an urban waterfront ...our health and our surrounding nature in long ...
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Significance of walkability in the context of terrace row houses in Malaysia : an ethnographic approach
... [1] Qibin Q., (2013), Walking may switch off ‘obesity genes’ while TV-watching ramps them up, available at http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/walking- ...
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Urban Walkability Measures: Data Quality, Cautions, and Associations with Active and Public Transportation Across Canada
... measured numerous different ways either as a density value or connectivity factor and represents the degree to which a study area’s road network is interconnected. Road networks can include such infrastructure as public ...
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Browse Title Index
... other health problems encouraging neighbourly interactions and making the urban environment a more enjoyable and safer place to live (Emery & Crump, ...improve walkability on ...
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Evaluation of the neighborhood environment walkability scale in Nigeria
... for health promotion in sub-Sahara Africa because chronic disease rates are ris- ing in the region ...to health-related recommendations for more devel- oped countries ...
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Social Capital and Walkability as Social Aspects of Sustainability
... layer health, air quality measurements, deforestation rates, desertification rates and measurements of agriculture, biodiversity, toxic chemicals, non-renewable material, hazardous waste, and water use ...of ...
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Associations of neighbourhood walkability indices with weight gain
... Data were from the PLACE (Physical Activity in Local- ities and Community Environments) study conducted in Adelaide, Australia. The original aim of the PLACE study was to examine associations of neighbourhood en- ...
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The contribution of area-level walkability to geographic variation in physical activity: a spatial analysis of 95,837 participants from the 45 and Up Study living in Sydney, Australia
... of walkability on the walking behavior and health outcomes of individuals and popu- lations with increasingly sophisticated designs ...measured walkability using the SWI [17], which is derived from ...
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The association between objective walkability, neighborhood socio-economic status, and physical activity in Belgian children
... if walkability is similarly related to PA in other age groups besides adults, because neighborhood physical environmental interventions affect all inhabitants of a neighborhood, and not only ...measured ...
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Relationship between neighborhood walkability and older adults’ physical activity: results from the Belgian Environmental Physical Activity Study in Seniors (BEPAS Seniors)
... the walkability-PA ...x walkability interactions [19,22], this was the first study to show that the observed relationship between walkability and PA was only present among older adults living in ...
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Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach to Safe Routes to School Programming
... School Districts do not typically collaborate with public health researchers or transportation planners regarding broader implications of transport policies. However, with childhood obesity rising, and districts ...
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A Study to Determine Pedestrian Walkability Index in Mixed Traffic Condition
... I owe a great debt of gratitude to Fr. Dr. Jaison Paul Mulerikkal, Principal, Prof. S. Rathish, Head of Department, Dr. Anita Jacob, PG Coordinator, my mini project guide Ms. Archana S, Assistant Professor, for their ...
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TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
... other walkability audit ...the walkability of the urban environment, only the questions that have sufficient reliability can be used to audit the land use in such ...This walkability audit tool can ...
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Understanding the Walkability Propensity
... public health, eco- nomic, environmental, transportation and other benefits of promoting ...of walkability offers an alternative basis for sustainability ...
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Walkability Of Sidewalk In Commercial Corridors
... INTRODUCTION Walkability is the basis or foundation for the sustainable city [1, 2, ...physical health [1] related to reducing obesity and cardiovascular [3]; raising well-being [4] and quality of life of ...
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Walkability Index by Global Walkability Index Method
... What is Walkability? Well it’s not just about the physical walking but also how walk able i.e. safe, convenient, comfortable, accessible and healthy the built environment is. A gas-belching, time-wasting, life ...
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