The association between neighborhood built environment and health-related fitness

Location or Design? Association between Neighborhood Location, Built Environment, Preference toward Neighborhood and Behaviors

Using Deep Learning to Examine the Association between the Built Environment and Neighborhood Adult Obesity Prevalence

More than one-third of the adult population in the United States is obese. Obesity has been linked to factors such as, genetics, diet, physical activity and the environment. However, evidence indicating associations between the built environment and obesity has varied across studies and geographical contexts. Here, we used deep learning and approximately 150,000 high resolution satellite images...

Neighborhood built environment and income: examining multiple health outcomes.

There is growing interest in the relation of built environments to physical activity, obesity, and other health outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to test associations of neighborhood built environment and median income to multiple health outcomes and examine whether associations are similar for low- and high-income groups. This was a cross-sectional study of 32 neighborhoods in Sea...

Fostering Effective Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the Built Environment and Health

The supportive role of the built environment for human health is a rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary research, evidence-based policy development and related practice. Yet despite closely linked origins, today the professions of public health and urban planning largely operate in the neo-liberal framework of academic, political and policy silos. A reinvigorated relationship between the t...

the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...