SynthesisHealth promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice2019
Evidence synthesis - A systematized literature review on the associations between neighbourhood built characteristics and walking among Canadian adults.
Synthesis in Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impacts of built environment changes on physical activity in Canada: a systematic review of natural experiments.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2026Pooled it
- The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between the built environment and physical activity among adults with low socio-economic status in Canada: a systematic review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021Pooled it
- Objective and perceived neighbourhood walkability: population-average associations with transportation and recreational physical activity in urban-dwelling Canadian adults.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Place attachment and walkability and their associations with walking in urban neighbourhoods.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Independent and joint associations of neighbourhood greenness and walkability with transportational and recreational physical activity among youth and adults in Canada.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Neighbourhood walkability and transportation and leisure physical activity by residency status: A cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative Canadian data.Journal of migration and health · 2024Article
- Health equity in urban and rural settings: implementation of the place standard tool in Spain.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The longitudinal effects of the built environment on transportation and recreational walking, and differences by age and sex: systematic review protocol.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between the built environment and walking: effect modification by socioeconomic status.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Built environment impact on the per capita cycling frequency of family--Based on two-level hierarchical linear model.PloS one · 2022Article
- Associations between neighborhood walkability and walking following residential relocation: Findings from Alberta's Tomorrow Project.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The Relationship of Urban Form on Children and Adolescent Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review of Canadian Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A longitudinal residential relocation study of changes in street layout and physical activity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Associations between the built environment and dietary intake, physical activity, and obesity: A scoping review of reviews.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Associations between the traditional and novel neighbourhood built environment metrics and weight status among Canadian men and women.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021Article
- "I feel too lethargic to do physical activity": Perceptions of Iranian adults on the barriers to perform regular physical activity.Health promotion perspectives · 2021Article
- Associations between Neighborhood Walkability, Physical Activity, and Chronic Disease in Nova Scotian Adults: An Atlantic PATH Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Identifying the facilitators, constraints and barriers of community indoor walking programmes: protocol for a realist synthesis.BMJ open · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionEvidence to date suggests that the built environment has the potential to facilitate and even discourage physical activity. A limitation of previous reviews is that they have typically not been country-specific. We conducted a systematized literature review of quantitative studies that estimated associations between the built environment-which were objectively measured-and walking among Canadian adults.
methodsFive scientific databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies published in all years up to December 31, 2016, that estimated the association between the built environment (i.e. objectively measured using audits and Geographic Information Systems [GIS]) and physical activity among a sample of Canadian adults. The database searches, title and abstract screen, full-text review and data extraction were undertaken by two reviewers.
resultsOf 4140 articles identified, 25 met the inclusion criteria. Most studies included data from a single Canadian province. All but two studies were cross-sectional. Most studies captured self-reported walking for transportation and walking for any purpose. Overall walkability and land use were consistently associated with walking for transportation, while proximity to destinations was associated with walking for any purpose.
conclusionOur review findings suggest that the built environment is potentially important for supporting adult walking. Overall walkability, land use and proximity to destinations appear to be important given their association with transportation walking and walking for any purpose.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.