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ArticleCities & health2018

Restructuring the built environment to change adult health behaviors: a scoping review integrated with behavior change frameworks.

Stephanie Wilkie, Tim Townshend, Emine Thompson, Jonathan Ling

Open access · hybridAbstract readScoping Review
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Article in Cities & health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie WilkieSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2829-9959
Tim TownshendSchool of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6080-2238
Emine ThompsonDepartment of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Jonathan LingSchool of Nursing and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.
University of Sunderland · GBNewcastle College · GBNorthumbria University · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K02325X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Built environment restructuring can improve public health through increased opportunity for healthy behaviors. Behavioral science targets individual health behaviors within place, suggesting the potential to integrate these approaches. This scoping review was one of the first to summarise the impact built environment restructuring has on health outcomes and behaviors

Indexed as

behavior changeBuilt environmentCOM-Bphysical activitypublic healthurban planning

Identifiers

PMID31650034
PMCPMC6777541
OpenAlexW2910596511

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