The influence of walkability on broader mobility for Canadian middle aged and older adults: An examination of Walk Score™ and the Mobility Over Varied …

JA Hirsch, M Winters, PJ Clarke, N Ste-Marie… - Preventive …, 2017 - Elsevier
… respective dissemination areas and a Street Smart Walk Score™ was linked to participants'
residential postal codes. We used Street Smart Walk Score™ as a continuous variable and …

The missing middle: Filling the gap between walkability and observed walking behavior

T Herrmann, G Boisjoly, NA Ross… - Transportation …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… indexes, and the discrepancies found between Walk Score and walking rates, the aim of
this paper is to identify land use characteristics that are associated with higher rates of …

Walk Score® and the prevalence of utilitarian walking and obesity among Ontario adults: A cross-sectional study.

M Chiu, BR Shah, LC Maclagan, MR Rezai… - Health …, 2015 - search.ebscohost.com
… More details about the Score and its validation can be found elsewhere.This analysis …
—was used to determine the Walk Score. A walkability score was assigned to each respondent …

[HTML][HTML] The Independent Associations between Walk Score® and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Waist Circumference, Waist-To-Hip Ratio and Body Mass …

GR McCormack, A Blackstaffe, A Nettel-Aguirre… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
… Our study aim was to estimate the associations between walkability, measured using Walk
Score ® , and each of WC, WH ratio, and BMI among urban Canadian adults. Methods: In …

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

R Wasfi, M Steinmetz-Wood, Y Kestens - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… The middle walk score category (50–69) was not changed and refers to “medium … Adults
18 to 90 years old that lived in residential areas with a high walk score (walk score 70 and above…

[HTML][HTML] Neighborhood walk score and selected Cardiometabolic factors in the French RECORD cohort study

J Méline, B Chaix, B Pannier, G Ogedegbe… - BMC public health, 2017 - Springer
… [21] The current study adds to previous literature by expanding work utilizing Walk Score
some Walk Score studies have been conducted in non-US locations including in Canada [22,23…

Walk score® and its potential contribution to the study of active transport and walkability: A critical and systematic review

CM Hall, Y Ram - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… of walkability using Walk Score® is inconsistent. Twenty-nine papers do not exclusively
relying on Walk Score® as a single measurement of walkability … of walkability. In 33 studies the …

Neighborhood walkability and body mass index trajectories: longitudinal study of Canadians

RA Wasfi, K Dasgupta, H Orpana… - American journal of …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Canada’s National Population Health Survey (n = 2935; biannual assessments 1994–2006).
We measured walkability with the Walk Score. … analysis to young and middle-aged adults (…

Moving to a highly walkable neighborhood and incidence of hypertension: a propensity-score matched cohort study

M Chiu, MR Rezai, LC Maclagan… - Environmental …, 2016 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… Included in our definition of low-walkability postal codes are those defined by Walk Score
as “Car-Dependent” (0-49), “Somewhat Walkable” (50–69) and “Very Walkable” postal codes (…

Contributions and Limitations Walk Score® in the Context of Walkability: A Scoping Review

JA Brown, KD Curtin, M Thomson… - Environment and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… The Walk Score ® metric is one measure of walkability, … With increased interest in the use
of Walk Score ® as a … how researchers utilized Walk Score ® in walkability research, with …