ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017
Active living in rural Appalachia: Using the rural active living assessment (RALA) tools to explore environmental barriers.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- How to Best Develop and Deliver Generic Long-Term Condition Rehabilitation Programmes in Rural Settings: An Integrative Review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Empowering Rural Communities to Measure Walkability: Co-Development of a Digital Tool.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- 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
- The paradox of high greenness and poor health in rural Central Appalachia.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Assessing the built environment, programs, and policies that support physical activity opportunities in the rural Deep South.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Impact of community-driven interventions on dietary and physical activity outcomes among a cohort of adults in a rural Appalachian county in Eastern Kentucky, 2019-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Supporting a rural wellness intervention through assessing and mapping rural physical activity environments.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Unhealthy lifestyles, environment, well-being and health capability in rural neighbourhoods: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Diverse school community engagement with the North Carolina active routes to school project: a diffusion study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Assessment of Town and Park Characteristics Related to Physical Activity in the Lower Mississippi Delta.Preventing chronic disease · 2019Observational
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Abstract
People residing in rural communities are more likely to be physically inactive and subsequently have elevated risks for chronic disease. Recent evidence has shown this could stem from environmental barriers, inadequate programming and policies directed at the promotion of physical activity (PA) in rural settings. The objective of this research was to assess active living features in rural towns and townships (
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