Neighborhood walkability, physical activity, and walking behavior: The Swedish Neighborhood and Physical Activity (SNAP) study

Sundquist, Kristina; Eriksson, Ulf; Kawakami, Naomi; Skog, Lars; Ohlsson, Henrik; Arvidsson, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.004

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“…Four studies [35,40,65,66] in Europe found that walkability was positively related to walking for transport, and the results were in agreement with the findings of North America and Australasia studies and a review that focused on European adults [20]. Moreover, although most included studies were conducted in high-income countries, studies from the USA, Australia, and Belgium all confirmed that residents in the neighborhood with a higher level of socioeconomically disadvantage walked more for transport [29,46,66].…”

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The Relationship between the Neighborhood Built Environment and Active Transportation among Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

Wang

Chen

2017

Urban Science

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Active transportation (AT) has aroused great interest in recent years as it may benefit public health and reduce the dependency on cars. This article aims to summarize recent findings on the relationship between the objectively measured built environment and AT among adults, to examine if different study designs may generate different results, and to provide directions for future research. A systematic literature review of journal articles from different databases was conducted. Fifty-one articles published between 2005 and 2017 were identified, and twelve built environment factors were extracted. The results showed that residential density, land use mix, street connectivity, retail land use, walkability, sidewalk, and access to destinations had a convincing positive relationship with walking for transport. Regarding cycling for transport, while street connectivity and bike lane showed a convincing positive relationship, neighborhood aesthetics and access to destinations showed a convincing negative relationship. Studies that use different analyzed geographic units and different measurements of AT may generate different results, so choosing suitable geographic units and measurement of AT is necessary to reduce the mismatch in the relationships. In addition, we need more longitudinal studies, more studies on cycling for transport, and more studies in countries outside North America and Australasia.

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The Relationship between the Neighborhood Built Environment and Active Transportation among Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

Wang

Chen

2017

Urban Science

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“…Recent studies show that neighborhood walkability, an environmental measure of "ease" of walking in local areas, is associated with walking for recreation equally in low and high SES areas. [7][8][9] Such evidence supports the potential of environmental initiatives to increase recreational physical activity both in advantaged and disadvantaged neighborhoods. However, studies to date have focused on walkability, a composite measure of objectively derived environmental factors that are hypothesized to be related to walking, in examining how associations of neighborhood environments with physical activity may vary between low and high SES areas.…”

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Do Relationships Between Environmental Attributes and Recreational Walking Vary According to Area-Level Socioeconomic Status?

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Residents of areas with lower socioeconomic status (SES) are known to be less physically active during leisure time. Neighborhood walkability has been shown to be related to recreational walking equally in low and high SES areas. This crosssectional study tested whether associations of specific environmental attributes, measured objectively and subjectively, with walking for recreation were moderated by area-level SES. The data of the North West Adelaide Health Study collected in 2007 (n=1500, mean age 57) were used. Self-reported walking frequency was the outcome of the study. Environmental exposure measures included objectively measured walkability components (residential density, intersection density, land use mix, and net retail area ratio) and perceived attributes (access to destinations, neighborhood esthetics, walking infrastructure, traffic/barriers, and crime safety). Participants' suburbs were categorized into low and high SES areas using an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage. Low SES areas had lower scores in residential density, neighborhood esthetics, walking infrastructure, traffic/barriers, and crime safety. Recreational walking was associated with residential density, access to destinations, esthetics, traffic/barriers, and crime safety. Effect modification was observed for two attributes (out of nine): residential density was associated with walking only in low SES areas, while walking infrastructure was associated with walking only in high SES areas. The associations of neighborhood environmental attributes with recreational walking were largely consistent across SES groups. However, low SES areas were disadvantaged in most perceived environmental attributes related to recreational walking. Improving such attributes in low SES neighborhoods may help close socioeconomic disparities in leisure time physical activity.

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“…Six studies [34,63,78,83,85,86] investigated only walking, one study [41] focused on only cycling and five studies [40,52,82,84,92] measured both. Convincing evidence for a positive relationship with recreational walking and cycling emerged for traffic-related safety, which means that people living in less trafficked (and thus potentially safer) areas walked or cycled more for recreation.…”

Section: Physical Environment and The Relationship With Recreational mentioning

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Relationship between the physical environment and different domains of physical activity in European adults: A systematic review

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Cauwenberg³

et al. 2012

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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Neighborhood walkability, physical activity, and walking behavior: The Swedish Neighborhood and Physical Activity (SNAP) study

Cited by 217 publications

References 27 publications

The Relationship between the Neighborhood Built Environment and Active Transportation among Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

The Relationship between the Neighborhood Built Environment and Active Transportation among Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

Do Relationships Between Environmental Attributes and Recreational Walking Vary According to Area-Level Socioeconomic Status?

Relationship between the physical environment and different domains of physical activity in European adults: A systematic review

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