Creating Neighbourhood Groupings Based on Built Environment Features to Facilitate Health Promotion Activities
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Creating neighbourhood groupings based on built environment features to facilitate health promotion activities.
OBJECTIVES Detailed assessments of the built environment often resist data reduction and summarization. This project sought to develop a method of reducing built environment data to an extent that they can be effectively communicated to researchers and community stakeholders. We aim to help in an understanding of how these data can be used to create neighbourhood groupings based on built enviro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403837