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ReviewThe Lancet. Global health2022

Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities.

Geoff Boeing, Carl Higgs, Shiqin Liu, Billie Giles-Corti, James F Sallis, Ester Cerin, Melanie Lowe, Deepti Adlakha, Erica Hinckson, Anne Vernez Moudon and 20 more

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Review in The Lancet. Global health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Geoff BoeingDepartment of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: boeing@usc.edu.
Carl HiggsHealthy Liveable Cities Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Shiqin LiuSchool of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Billie Giles-CortiHealthy Liveable Cities Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
James F SallisMary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Ester CerinMary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Melanie LoweMelbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Deepti AdlakhaDepartment of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Natural Learning Initiative, College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Erica HincksonHuman Potential Centre, School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Anne Vernez MoudonDepartment of Urban Design and Planning, Urban Form Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Deborah SalvoPrevention Research Center, Brown School, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
Marc A AdamsCollege of Health Solutions, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Ligia V BarrozoDepartment of Geography, School of Philosophy, Literature, and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Tamara BozovicHuman Potential Centre, School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Xavier Delclòs-AlióDepartment of Geography, Rovira i Virgili University, Vila-seca, Spain.
Jan DygrýnFaculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Sara FergusonSchool of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Klaus GebelAustralian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Prevention Research Collaboration, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Thanh Phuong HoTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Poh-Chin LaiDepartment of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Joan C MartoriDepartment of Economics and Business, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Spain.
Kornsupha NitvimolOffice of the Permanent Secretary for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ana QueraltAFIPS Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Jennifer D RobertsDepartment of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Garba H SamboDepartment of Geography, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Jasper SchipperijnDepartment of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
David ValeResearch Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Nico Van de WegheDepartment of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Guillem VichISGlobal, Barcelona's Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Geography, Rovira i Virgili University, Vila-seca, Spain.
Jonathan ArundelHealthy Liveable Cities Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Funding

Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research P30DK092950 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Ross C Brownson, Debra Haire-Joshu · 2011 to 2026
$11.7M
The Retain Study: Recruiting and Engaging with Technology Older Adults to Increase NeurocognitionU48DP006395 · DP · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BROWNSON, ROSS C · 2018 to 2023
$4.8M
WalkIT: Neighborhood walkability and moderation of adaptive walking interventionsR01CA198915 · NCI · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI ADAMS, MARC A · 2015 to 2019
$2.8M
NCCDPHP CDC HHS U48 DP006395NCI NIH HHS R01 CA198915NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK092950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator frameworks use coarse spatial scales that either only allow between-city comparisons, or require expensive, technical, local spatial analyses for within-city comparisons. This study developed a reusable, open-source urban indicator computational framework using open data to enable consistent local and global comparative analyses. We show this framework by calculating spatial indicators-for 25 diverse cities in 19 countries-of urban design and transport features that support health and sustainability. We link these indicators to cities' policy contexts, and identify populations living above and below critical thresholds for physical activity through walking. Efforts to broaden participation in crowdsourcing data and to calculate globally consistent indicators are essential for planning evidence-informed urban interventions, monitoring policy effects, and learning lessons from peer cities to achieve health, equity, and sustainability goals.

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Global HealthHealth StatusCitiesHumansSoftwareSpatial Analysis

Identifiers

PMID35561725
PMCPMC9902524

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