ArticleHealth & place2018
Comparing objective measures of the built environment in their associations with youth physical activity and sedentary behavior across heterogeneous geographies.
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- Objectively-measured Environmental Support for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Breastfeeding in the Rural United States: A Scoping Review to Inform Opportunities for Public Health Surveillance.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2025Article
- Perceived urban environment attributes and obesity indices in adults: an 8-Nation study from Latin America.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Czech Republic's 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth: A rationale and comprehensive analysis.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2022Article
- Association of Built Environment with Physical Activity and Physical Fitness in Men and Women Living inside the City Wall of Xi'an, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Measuring Neighborhood Order and Disorder: a Rapid Literature Review.Current environmental health reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
We compared two strategies for measuring built environment features in their associations with youth physical activity and sedentary behavior across heterogeneous geographies of Pennsylvania. Physical activity environments of communities representing a rural-to-urban gradient were characterized through direct observation and spatially referenced archival data subjected to confirmatory factor analysis. Stratified regression analyses assessed associations between environmental measures and behavioral outcomes by community type. Neither strategy was consistently associated with behavior across communities. Findings highlight the importance of differentiating community type in evaluating associations of the built environment, and the challenge of measuring meaningful differences that influence youth behavior across heterogeneous geographies.
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