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ArticleThe Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association2025

Is Walk Score a useful tool for measuring walkability in rural communities?

Jay E Maddock, Cynthia K Perry, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Nathan F Diekman, Jessica Currier, Jim Winkle, Noah Lenstra, Heather Franklin

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Article in The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jay E MaddockSchool of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Cynthia K PerrySchool of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Rebecca Seguin-FowlerInstitute for Advancing Health through Agriculture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Nathan F DiekmanSchool of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Jessica CurrierKnight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2683-7912
Jim WinkleSchool of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Noah LenstraDepartment of Information, Library, and Research Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-066X
Heather FranklinSchool of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Funding

Rural Libraries Promoting Walking and Walkability in Their Rural CommunitiesR01NR020368 · NINR · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI PERRY, CYNTHIA KAY, SEGUIN-FOWLER, REBECCA ANNE · 2022 to 2025
$2.7M
NIH HHSNINR NIH HHSNINR NIH HHS R01 NR020368
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ruralwalkabilitywalkingWalk Score

Identifiers

PMID39520249
PMCPMC12342837

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