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Walk Score® is a proprietary walkability metric that ranks locations by proximity to destinations, with emerging health promotion applications for increasing walking as physical activity. Currently, field validations of Walk Score® have only occurred in metropolitan regions of the United States; moreover, many studies employ an earlier Walk Score® version utilizing straight line distance. To ad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0749-3797
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.03.021