نتایج جستجو برای: neighborhood environment

تعداد نتایج: 544573  

2017
Tserendulam Shagdarsuren Keiko Nakamura Layla McCay

BACKGROUND This study was conducted in rapidly urbanizing Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to examine patterns of perceived neighborhood quality by residents and the associations between these patterns and self-reported general and mental health in middle-aged women. METHODS A questionnaire survey was administered to 960 women aged 40-60 years. Demographic and socio-economic characteristics, subjects' ...

2013
Marc A Adams Ding Ding James F Sallis Heather R Bowles Barbara E Ainsworth Patrick Bergman Fiona C Bull Harriette Carr Cora L Craig Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Luis Fernando Gomez Maria Hagströmer Lena Klasson-Heggebø Shigeru Inoue Johan Lefevre Duncan J Macfarlane Sandra Matsudo Victor Matsudo Grant McLean Norio Murase Michael Sjöström Heidi Tomten Vida Volbekiene Adrian Bauman

BACKGROUND Neighborhood environment studies of physical activity (PA) have been mainly single-country focused. The International Prevalence Study (IPS) presented a rare opportunity to examine neighborhood features across countries. The purpose of this analysis was to: 1) detect international neighborhood typologies based on participants' response patterns to an environment survey and 2) to esti...

The aim of the present study was to model a community-  based development approach in neighborhood development planning using structural equation methods. The analytical-descriptive research method is applied with a practical purpose and the approach governing the research space with a methodological focus is a quantitative approach. Two library and survey methods have been used to gather infor...

Journal: :Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2015
Iona Cheng Salma Shariff-Marco Jocelyn Koo Kristine R Monroe Juan Yang Esther M John Allison W Kurian Marilyn L Kwan Brian E Henderson Leslie Bernstein Yani Lu Richard Sposto Cheryl Vigen Anna H Wu Scarlett Lin Gomez Theresa H M Keegan

Little is known about neighborhood attributes that may influence opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity in relation to breast cancer mortality. We used data from the California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium and the California Neighborhoods Data System (CNDS) to examine the neighborhood environment, body mass index, and mortality after breast cancer. We studied 8,995 Afri...

Journal: :علوم اجتماعی 0
دکتر براتعلی خاکپور عیسی پیری

social pathology, a new concept taken from biological science in the 19th century, is a science dealing with the study and analysis of social disorders. the objectives of this science are the identification of social injuries and their causes and methods of preventing them. lack of place sense (place belonging) and community sense in the citizens who have migrated to large cities create many so...

Journal: :مطالعات شهری 0

nowadays, a special attention is given to the role of urban planning and the built environment and their impacts on neighborhood walkability and residents’ walking behavior. a large number of studies have been conducted about this issue in developed countries, but little has been done in this regard in the context of a developing country such as iran. these researches emphasized the strong rela...

2010
Basile Chaix Nathalie Billaudeau Frédérique Thomas Sabrina Havard David Evans Yan Kestens Kathy Bean

Background: Studies of neighborhood effects on health that are based on cohort data are subject to bias induced by neighborhoodrelated selective study participation. Methods: We used data from the RECORD Cohort Study (REsidential Environment and CORonary heart Disease) carried out in the Paris metropolitan area, France (n 7233). We performed separate and joint modeling of neighborhood determina...

Journal: :Health & place 2012
Kelsey McDonald Mary Hearst Kian Farbakhsh Carrie Patnode Ann Forsyth John Sirard Leslie Lytle

This study used latent class analysis to classify adolescent home neighborhoods (n=344) according to built environment characteristics, and tested how adolescent physical activity, sedentary behavior, and screen time differ by neighborhood type/class. Four distinct neighborhood classes emerged: (1) low-density retail/transit, low walkability index (WI), further from recreation; (2) high-density...

2014
Kelin Li Ming Wen Kevin A. Henry

This study investigates the association between neighborhood racial composition and adult obesity risks by race and gender, and explores whether neighborhood social and built environment mediates the observed protective or detrimental effects of racial composition on obesity risks. Cross-sectional data from the 2006 and 2008 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey are merged with cens...

Journal: :American journal of epidemiology 1999
I H Yen G A Kaplan

Recent reports suggest the importance of associations between residential area characteristics and health status, but most research uses only census data to measure these characteristics. The current research examined the effect of overall neighborhood social environment on 11-year risk of death. On the basis of data, the authors developed a three-component neighborhood social environment scale...

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