BACKGROUND Neighborhood environments affect children's health outcomes. Observational methods used to assess neighborhoods can be categorized as indirect, intermediate, or direct. Direct methods, involving in-person audits of the neighborhoods conducted by trained observers, are recognized as an accurate representation of current neighborhood conditions. The authors investigated the association...

BACKGROUND Public parks can be an important setting for physical activity promotion, but to increase park use and the activity levels of park users, the crucial attributes related to active park use need to be defined. Not only user characteristics and structural park attributes, but also characteristics of the surrounding neighborhood are important to examine. Furthermore, internationally comp...

Evidence of associations between neighbourhood built characteristics and sedentary behaviours is mixed. The study aim was to investigate the objectively-derived self-reported among Canadian men women. This sourced survey data from Alberta's Tomorrow Project (2008; n = 14,785), in which sitting motor vehicle travel times during last 7 days measured. Geographic Information System used calculate w...

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...

background: in spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. as a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in iran is critical. accordingly, in this study neighborhood environment walkability scale (news) was adapted...

Improvement of the walkability 15-min community life circle can enhance convenience for residents to obtain daily service facilities. In this paper, by obtaining Point Interest (POI) data facilities used Shanghai residents, we calculate walk scores within walking distance using assessment tool and analyze results with population density spatial correlation. The show that communities high are co...

Walkability index is an assessment of pedestrians through the physical condition a sidewalk facility. Sukaramai Plaza located in CBD (Central Business District) Area Pekanbaru City. This area has become attractions for people and other areas. As movement that occurs not only vehicles lane vehicles, but also pedestrians. Evaluation pedestrian paths needed to provide input regarding comfortabilit...