Association Between School Policies and Built Environment, and Youth's Participation in Various Types of Physical Activities

Stephanie Ward; Mathieu Bélanger; Denise Donovan; Isabelle Caissie; Julie Goguen; Allain Vanasse

doi:10.1111/josh.12273

Evaluating the Effective Physical Indicators of Built Environment on Promotion of Sustainable Transportation: The Case of Sanandaj City

Education and Urban Society ◽

10.1177/0013124519884931 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (5) ◽

pp. 774-799

Author(s):

Farzin Charehjoo ◽

Nassim Hoorijani

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Built Environment ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Critical Role ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Sustainable Transportation ◽

Neighborhood Design ◽

Statistical Population ◽

The Impact

The main goal of this research is to evaluate the relationship between the built environment and public health of citizens in four different buffers of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, Iran. There is a growing body of evidence that links the neighborhood design to public health and argues that the built environment impacts on the public health of people through the weakening or strengthening of sustainable transportation (walking, cycling, and public transportation) and physical activity. Regular physical activity has a significant impact on the health of individuals, and this can be the best way to cope with several diseases. The statistical population of this study includes people between the age of 18 and 65 years in Sanandaj city. The method used to investigate the normality of dependent variables is the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; the assessment of the resident’s difference of physical activities is conducted through one-way variance; the impact of the built environment on physical activities is assessed through a multivariate regression test, and the effect of physical activity on the health of the individuals is evaluated through a correlation test. This study, by explaining the characteristics of the built environment in four different buffers, has exhibited that the environment supporting physical activity of pedestrians plays a critical role in increasing the amount of physical activity they engage in.

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School policies, built environment and practices for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in schools of Delhi, India

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0215365 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. e0215365

Author(s):

Shalini Bassi ◽

Vinay K. Gupta ◽

MinHae Park ◽

Gaurang P. Nazar ◽

Tina Rawal ◽

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Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Prevention And Control ◽

Communicable Disease ◽

School Policies ◽

And Control ◽

Non Communicable Disease

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Relation Between Physical Activities and Built Environment: A Literature Review

Journal of Life and Earth Science ◽

10.3329/jles.v7i0.20127 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 91-98

Author(s):

Md Masud Parves Rana ◽

Xiaolu Zhou

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Literature Review ◽

Built Environment ◽

Physical Inactivity ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Neighborhood Environment ◽

High Rate ◽

Observational Measures ◽

Perceived Environment ◽

The World

Physical inactivity has been a leading factor of chronic diseases and high rate of mortality in the world. Despite the fact, only a small portion of people are able to meet up the recommended physical activities. However, there are handful studies suggest that built environment may provide stimulus or barriers to peoples participation in physical activities. Drawing upon this context, this paper aims to review articles regarding built environment and physical activity focusing on characteristics of built environment which are particularly helpful in improving neighborhood environment, and to catch the attention to physical activities, such as walking, and cycling. It also critically reviews the measures of built environment, and finds three measures viz. (i) perceived environment measures, (ii) observational measures, and (iii) GIS-based measures. The article argues that integrated measures of built environment might be helpful to reduce limitations of individual measures and to understand the reasons of less participation in physical activities. It also suggests some practical interventions for improvement of built environment which is essentially inevitable to persuade physical activities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jles.v7i0.20127 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol. 7: 91-98, 2012

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The obesity epidemic and the metropolitan-scale built environment: Examining the health effects of polycentric development

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098019844177 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 39-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jiawen Yang ◽

Peiling Zhou

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Energy Expenditure ◽

Built Environment ◽

Weight Status ◽

Travel Behaviour ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Vigorous Exercise ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Individual Weight ◽

Sedentary Activities

Existing research on how the built environment affects physical activity and obesity has mainly focused on neighbourhood-scale features, such as land use mix, street connectivity and density. This research hypothesises that metropolitan-scale built-environment characteristics, such as polycentricity, should also play an important role. The impacts of the metropolitan built environment on individual travel behaviour will further affect how individuals allocate their time for sedentary activities, moderate physical activities and vigorous exercise, which in turn should affect individual weight status. This research uses the American Time Use Survey from 2003 to 2007 and spatial statistical polycentricity metrics for hypothesis testing. A multi-level path analysis reveals that living in a relatively polycentric region is significantly associated with a lower obesity probability with multiple paths: individuals living in relatively polycentric regions tend to spend less time on sedentary activities and more time on moderate-to-vigorous physical activities, which increases their daily energy expenditure; beyond the linkage to energy expenditure, living in a relatively polycentric region is directly associated with a lower obesity probability, which suggests other ways that the polycentric structure influences individual weight status. This research furthers the literature by examining how the formats of metropolitan spatial development are relevant to broader issues of individual lifestyles and public health. The results suggest that regionwide efforts to cultivate suburban centres of increased density could lead to significant public health benefits.

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