The impact of neighborhood walkability on walking: does it differ across adult life stage and does neighborhood buffer size matter?

K Villanueva, M Knuiman, A Nathan, B Giles-Corti… - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
We explored the impact of neighborhood walkability on young adults, early-middle adults,
middle-aged adults, and older adults' walking across different neighborhood buffers …

[HTML][HTML] Place matters: A longitudinal analysis measuring the association between neighbourhood walkability and walking by age group and population center size in …

R Wasfi, M Steinmetz-Wood, Y Kestens - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This study examined the influence of walkability on walking behaviour and assessed
whether associations varied according to life-stage and population center (PC) size …

Neighborhood walkability and the walking behavior of Australian adults

N Owen, E Cerin, E Leslie, N Coffee, LD Frank… - American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The physical attributes of residential neighborhoods, particularly the
connectedness of streets and the proximity of destinations, can influence walking behaviors …

High neighborhood walkability mitigates declines in middle-to-older aged adults' walking for transport

H Shimura, T Sugiyama… - Journal of physical …, 2012 - journals.humankinetics.com
Background: Neighborhood walkability shows significant positive relationship with residents'
walking for transport in cross-sectional studies. We examined prospective relationships of …

A longitudinal study examining changes in street connectivity, land use, and density of dwellings and walking for transport in Brisbane, Australia

R Bentley, T Blakely, A Kavanagh… - Environmental …, 2018 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Societies face the challenge of keeping people active as they age. Walkable
neighborhoods have been associated with physical activity, but more rigorous analytical …

The relationship between cluster-analysis derived walkability and local recreational and transportation walking among Canadian adults

GR McCormack, C Friedenreich, BA Sandalack… - Health & place, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigated the association between objectively-assessed neighborhood walkability
and local walking among adults. Two independent random cross-sectional samples of …

[PDF][PDF] Evidence synthesis–A systematized literature review on the associations between neighbourhood built characteristics and walking among Canadian adults

B Farkas, DJ Wagner, A Nettel-Aguirre… - Health promotion and …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Introduction: Evidence 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 …

The association between objectively measured neighborhood features and walking in middle-aged adults

LAM Wilson, B Giles-Corti, NW Burton… - American Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose. Explore the role of the neighborhood environment in supporting walking. Design.
Cross-sectional study of 10,286 residents of 200 neighborhoods. Participants were selected …

Neighborhood walkability and health outcomes among older adults: The mediating role of physical activity

J Van Cauwenberg, V Van Holle, I De Bourdeaudhuij… - Health & place, 2016 - Elsevier
We examined the mediating role of physical activity on the relationships of walkability with
Flemish older adults' health outcomes. In low income neighborhoods, residents of high …

Local environments as determinants of walking in Melbourne, Australia

R Bentley, D Jolley, AM Kavanagh - Social science & medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
Structural changes to neighbourhoods that promote walking are likely to benefit everyone in
a community and result in long-term improvements in the population's physical activity and …