نتایج جستجو برای: neighborhood environment

تعداد نتایج: 544573  

2012
Shalini A. Tendulkar Karestan C. Koenen Erin C. Dunn Stephen Buka S. V. Subramanian

BACKGROUND Social support is frequently linked to positive parenting behavior. Similarly, studies increasingly show a link between neighborhood residential environment and positive parenting behavior. However, less is known about how the residential environment influences parental social support. To address this gap, we examine the relationship between neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and...

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

BACKGROUND Increasing empirical evidence supports associations between neighborhood environments and physical activity. However, since most studies were conducted in a single country, particularly western countries, the generalizability of associations in an international setting is not well understood. The current study examined whether associations between perceived attributes of neighborhood...

Journal: :Cities 2022

With great concern over the health-promoting environment worldwide, there is a growing body of research into neighborhood effects on health beyond sole focus individual socioeconomic disadvantages and lifestyle risks. Our study contributes to by investigating combined multi-dimensional environmental characteristics recreational physical activity under different geographic contexts residents' se...

Journal: :Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology 2014
Adalberto Aparecido dos Santos Lopes Alessandra Nunes Lanzoni Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino Ciro Romélio Rodriguez-Añez Rodrigo Siqueira Reis

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between perceived neighborhood environment and physical activity (PA) in high school students from Curitiba (PR), Brazil. METHODS A sample of 1,611 high school students from public schools was surveyed. The PA was assessed through questions, engaged for at least 20 minutes or 60 minutes. Perceptions on neighborhood environment were assessed through ten que...

2016
Young-Jae Kim Ayoung Woo

Neighborhood walkability can influence individual health, social interactions, and environmental quality, but the relationships between subsidized households and their walkable environment have not been sufficiently examined in previous empirical studies. Focusing on two types of subsidized housing developments (Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Public Housing (PH)) in Austin, Texas, th...

Journal: :Preventive medicine 2014
Xingyou Zhang James B Holt Hua Lu Stephen Onufrak Jiawen Yang Steven P French Daniel Z Sui

OBJECTIVE Automobile dependency and longer commuting are associated with current obesity epidemic. We aimed to examine the urban-rural differential effects of neighborhood commuting environment on obesity in the US METHODS: The 1997-2005 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were linked to 2000 US Census data to assess the effects of neighborhood commuting environment: census tract-level auto...

Journal: :American journal of preventive medicine 2012
Gina S Lovasi Michael D M Bader James Quinn Kathryn Neckerman Christopher Weiss Andrew Rundle

BACKGROUND Neighborhood attractiveness and safety may encourage physical activity and help individuals maintain a healthy weight. However, these neighborhood characteristics may not be equally relevant to health across all settings and population subgroups. PURPOSE To evaluate whether potentially attractive neighborhood features are associated with lower BMI, whether safety hazards are associ...

2005
Xinyu Cao Patricia L Mokhtarian Susan L Handy

Auto ownership is a critical mediating link in the connection between the built environment and travel behavior: the built environment presumably influences auto ownership, which in turn impacts travel behavior. However, the way in which individual elements of the built environment affect auto-ownership choices is far from understood. Further, residential self-selection may confound the interac...

Journal: :American journal of epidemiology 2009
James W Collins Richard J David Kristin M Rankin Jennifer R Desireddi

In perinatal epidemiology, transgenerational risk factors are defined as conditions experienced by one generation that affect the pregnancy outcomes of the next generation. The authors investigated the transgenerational effect of neighborhood poverty on infant birth weight among African Americans. Stratified and multilevel logistic regression analyses were performed on an Illinois transgenerati...

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