The Effectiveness of Urban Design and Land Use and Transport Policies and Practices to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.

By G. Heath, Ross C. Brownson, J. Kruger, R. Miles, K. Powell, L. Ramsey. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2006

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Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation

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A Systematic Review of Agreement Between Perceived and Objective Neighborhood Environment Measures and Associations With Physical Activity Outcomes (2017, background): “These approaches include improving park and trail access, planning mixed use neighborhoods, and developing connected street networks, which can positively influence physical activity in communities (Heath et al., 2006; Kahn et al., 2002).”
Built Environment Correlates of Walking: A Review (2008, methodology): “Many reviews call for the use of objective measures generated with the help of geographic information systems (GIS) [18,33,49,54,58].”
Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale: validity and development of a short form. (2006, background): “Reviews of the transportation and urban planning literature found that residents from neighborhoods with higher levels of residential density, street connectivity, and land use mix reported more walking and cycling than their counterparts (14,25,30).”
Physical activity and food environments: solutions to the obesity epidemic. (2009, background): “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Task Force for Community Preventive Services determined that land-use changes are an evidencebased intervention for promoting physical activity (Heath et al. 2006).”
Urban energy systems within the transition to sustainable development. A research agenda for urban metabolism (2017, background): “As an example, changing infrastructure and urban planning can lead to a decrease in car use in dense urban areas, and by doing so reducing health risks to city dwellers (Jackson, 2003; Heath et al., 2006; de Hartog et al., 2010; Tight et al., 2011).”
Neighborhood Built Environment and Income: Examining Multiple Health Outcomes (2009, background): “It is well-established that adults walk more for transportation in walkable neighborhoods (Heath et al., 2006; Transportation Research Board and Institute of Medicine, 2005; Frank et al., 2004), but the few studies that examined leisure walking or total self-reported physical activity usually report”
Theories of physical activity behaviour change: A history and synthesis of approaches (2019, background): “Settings-based interventions such as schools, urban design, parks, and recreation facilities are targets where governments can take action (Heath et al., 2012).”