نتایج جستجو برای: neighborhood environment

تعداد نتایج: 544573  

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2007
Lawrence Douglas Frank Brian E Saelens Ken E Powell James E Chapman

Evidence documents associations between neighborhood design and active and sedentary forms of travel. Most studies compare travel patterns for people located in different types of neighborhoods at one point in time adjusting for demographics. Most fail to account for either underlying neighborhood selection factors (reasons for choosing a neighborhood) or preferences (neighborhoods that are pre...

Journal: :Drug and alcohol dependence 2009
Jennifer Ahern Sandro Galea Alan Hubbard S Leonard Syme

BACKGROUND Although neighborhoods with more collective efficacy have better health in general, recent work suggests that social norms and collective efficacy may in combination influence health behaviors such as smoking. METHODS Using data from the New York Social Environment Study (conducted in 2005; n=4000), we examined the separate and combined associations of neighborhood collective effic...

Journal: :BMC Public Health 2009
Hannah M Badland Grant M Schofield Karen Witten Philip J Schluter Suzanne Mavoa Robin A Kearns Erica A Hinckson Melody Oliver Hector Kaiwai Victoria G Jensen Christina Ergler Leslie McGrath Julia McPhee

BACKGROUND Built environment attributes are recognized as being important contributors to physical activity (PA) engagement and body size in adults and children. However, much of the existing research in this emergent public health field is hindered by methodological limitations, including: population and site homogeneity, reliance on self-report measures, aggregated measures of PA, and inadequ...

2012
Karen Witten Tony Blakely Nasser Bagheri Hannah Badland Vivienne Ivory Jamie Pearce Suzanne Mavoa Erica Hinckson Grant Schofield

BACKGROUND Evidence of associations between neighborhood built environments and transport-related physical activity (PA) is accumulating, but few studies have investigated associations with leisure-time PA. OBJECTIVE We investigated associations of five objectively measured characteristics of the neighborhood built environment-destination access, street connectivity, dwelling density, land-us...

2016
Veerle Van Holle Jelle Van Cauwenberg Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Benedicte Deforche Nico Van de Weghe Delfien Van Dyck

This study examined associations between neighborhood social factors and physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) in older adults. Furthermore, possible moderating effects of neighborhood walkability were explored. Data from 431 community-dwelling Belgian older adults (≥65 years) were analyzed. Neighborhood social factors included measures of neighboring, social trust and cohesion and...

Journal: :American journal of epidemiology 2010
Arijit Nandi Thomas A Glass Stephen R Cole Haitao Chu Sandro Galea David D Celentano Gregory D Kirk David Vlahov William W Latimer Shruti H Mehta

Neighborhood socioeconomic environment may be a determinant of injection drug use cessation. The authors used data from a prospective cohort study of Baltimore City, Maryland, injection drug users assessed between 1990 and 2006. The study examined the relation between living in a poorer neighborhood and the probability of injection cessation among active injectors, independent of individual cha...

Journal: :Journal of aging and physical activity 2005
Fuzhong Li John Fisher Ross C Brownson

The article reports on a multilevel analysis conducted to examine change in neighborhood walking activity over a 12-month period in a community-based sample of 28 neighborhoods of 303 older adults age 65 and over. The study employed a multilevel (residents nested within neighborhoods) and longitudinal (4 repeated measures over 1 year) design and a multilevel analysis of change and predictors of...

2016
Arezoo Rezazadeh Nasrin Omidvar Hassan Eini-Zinab Mahmoud Ghazi-Tabatabaie Reza Majdzadeh Saeid Ghavamzadeh Sakineh Nouri-Saeidlou

BACKGROUND Emerging evidence suggests that neighborhood characteristics can have direct and indirect effects on the weight status of the residents. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between general and central obesity and the neighborhood environment in two ethnic groups (Azeri Turks and Kurds) living in Urmia city, Northwestern Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, ...

نمودار تعداد نتایج جستجو در هر سال

با کلیک روی نمودار نتایج را به سال انتشار فیلتر کنید