ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2015
Do relationships between environmental attributes and recreational walking vary according to area-level socioeconomic status?
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Socioeconomic inequalities in exposure to neighbourhood environments for physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Pooled it
- How different are objective operationalizations of walkability for older adults compared to the general population? A systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring Perceived and Objective Measures of the Neighborhood Environment and Associations with Physical Activity among Adults: A Review and a Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Socioeconomic inequalities in waist circumference and its 12-year change: Moderation by neighbourhood population density.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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- The role of the perceived environment for recreational walking among adults in socioeconomically disadvantaged situations: A study using walk-along interviews.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Geographic clusters of objectively measured physical activity and the characteristics of their built environment in a Swiss urban area.PloS one · 2022Article
- Examining the Drivers of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications and Mortality Due to Heart Disease and Stroke: A County-Level Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Local-Area Walkability and Socioeconomic Disparities of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Japan.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Article
- Neighborhood built and social environment and meeting physical activity recommendations among mid to older adults with joint pain.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- The neighborhood social environment and physical activity: a systematic scoping review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Associations of Neighborhood Environmental Attributes with Walking in Japan: Moderating Effects of Area-Level Socioeconomic Status.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2017Article
- Interrelationships Between Walkability, Air Pollution, Greenness, and Body Mass Index.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017Article
- Do Inequalities in Neighborhood Walkability Drive Disparities in Older Adults' Outdoor Walking?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Intersection of neighborhood dynamics and socioeconomic status in small-area walkability: the Heart Healthy Hoods project.International journal of health geographics · 2017Article
- Physical activity pattern, cardiorespiratory fitness, and socioeconomic status in the SCAPIS pilot trial - A cross-sectional study.Preventive medicine reports · 2016Article
- Older Adults' Outdoor Walking: Inequalities in Neighbourhood Safety, Pedestrian Infrastructure and Aesthetics.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Self-Care Disparities Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in the USA.Current diabetes reports · 2016Review
- Physical and Cognitive Activities as Deterrents of Cognitive Decline in a Biracial Population Sample.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2015Article
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Abstract
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 cross-sectional 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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