Understanding environmental influences on walking; Review and research agenda.

By N. Owen, N. Humpel, E. Leslie, Adrian Bauman, James F. Sallis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, Transportation

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Interventions to promote walking: systematic review (2007, positive): “Factors influencing physical activity can be both behaviour specific and context specific. Different activities such as walking, gardening, or jogging could be more or less feasible or appealing for different people, and the likelihood of undertaking the same type of behaviour might vary according t”
Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. (2009, background): “When considering the evidence for this strategy, planners should note that physically active individuals might be more likely to locate in communities that have an existing infrastructure for walking, which might produce spurious correlations in cross-sectional studies (109).”
Understanding the importance of sport infrastructure for participation in different sports – findings from multi-level modeling (2012, background): “It has to be added that this applies as well to infrastructure (e.g. Owen et al., 2004), which can be measured subjectively (as perceived by the respondents) or objectively (as in numbers or area available).”
An ecological approach to creating active living communities. (2006, background): “(60) found that walking for recreation was repeatedly associated with aesthetics, convenience of facilities, and traffic volumes.”
Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review (2010, background): “In all of these studies, residential contexts were characterised by socio-economic indicators (including unemployment rates and single-parent rates((39,41)), income((31)), race/ethnicity((46,48)), households without cars((37,49))) and by other information such as degree of commercialisation((44)), u”
IPAQ environmental module; reliability testing (2006, background): “The questions addressed variables previously shown to be associated with physical activity such as presence of sidewalks, bike paths and recreational facilities (Humpel et al. 2002; Owen et al. 2004; Trost et al. 2002; Wendel-Vos et al. 2004).”
Healthy Nutrition Environments: Concepts and Measures (2005, background): “(O’Donnell, American Journal of Health Promotion, 1989, 3(3):5.”
Contribution of public parks to physical activity. (2007, background): “Owen et al.17 reviewed 18 studies and found many environmental features, such as aesthetics and the presence of hills, were associated with self-reported physical activity, although none of those studies objectively examined what activity occurs in parks and open spaces.”