Personal and environmental factors associated with physical inactivity among different racial-ethnic groups of U.S. middle-aged and older-aged women.

By Abby C. King, C. Castro, S. Wilcox, A. Eyler, James F. Sallis, Ross C. Brownson. Health Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Potential environmental determinants of physical activity in adults: a systematic review (2007, background): “More recent studies tend to be more specific in their definition of the type of physical activity Table 1 Selection criteria Factor Criteria Physical activity Physical activity Walking, bicycling, sports, commuting, leisure-time physical activity in general Specifically not: work-related physical ac”
Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations. (2009, background): “Studies failing to find an association between the presence of sidewalks and activity (82, 87 , 88) may therefore offer an incomplete picture if they do not incorporate sidewalk condition.”
Correlates of adults' participation in physical activity: review and update. (2002, background): “Women’s Determinants Study (6,20, 23 ,45), perceived barriers of fatigue, ill health, lack of energy, and self-consciousness about appearance emerged as significant correlates of physical activity.”
Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity (2003, neutral): “Since then, several studies have researched environmental determinants of physical activity [15–19].”
Walking and Bicycling: An Evaluation of Environmental Audit Instruments (2003, neutral): “(6) DM, data model: P, point; L, line; A, area; N/A, not available.”
Is it Safe to Walk?1 Neighborhood Safety and Security Considerations and Their Effects on Walking (2006, background): “, reported crimes in a neighborhood per capita, or number of emergency calls), while others (King et al. 2000; Booth et al. 2000; Ball et al. 2001) examine perceived crime.”
Physical Activity and Environment Research in the Health Field: Implications for Urban and Transportation Planning Practice and Research (2004, background): “Six studies have a basis in social cognitive theory, three of which (King et al. 2000; Booth et al. 2000; Hovell et al. 1992) derive their independent variables directly from its constructs.”
Objective Versus Perceived Walking Distances to Destinations (2008, background): “For example, the existence of threatening environmental conditions, such as the perceived presence of unattended dogs (King et al., 2000) and bothersome traffic (Carnegie et al.”
Walkability of local communities: using geographic information systems to objectively assess relevant environmental attributes. (2007, background): “…is some new evidence that supportive attributes of community physical environments can be associated with being more active (Ball et al., 2001; King et al., 2000; Frank and Engelke, 2001), much of that evidence is derived from studies in which selfreported perceptions of environmental…”