Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres
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Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres
BACKGROUND Evidence-based metrics are needed to inform urban policy to create healthy walkable communities. Most active living research has developed metrics of the environment around residential addresses, ignoring other important walking locations. Therefore, this study examined: metrics for built environment features surrounding local shopping centres, (known in Melbourne, Australia as neigh...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1479-5868
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-017-0621-9