Background and purpose A growing body of evidence documents multiple ways in which
land use and transportation investments influence health. To date, most evidence linking the …

Background Self-selection into residential neighbourhoods is a widely acknowledged, but
under-studied problem in research investigating neighbourhood influences on physical …

In the context of population ageing in many developed and developing countries,
encouraging active transport behaviors of older adults, is a key public health priority …

In the current century, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiovascular
diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, are the most important cause …

Household residential location changes have become an important life event to study
changes in travel behaviour. However, most related studies suffer from the shortcomings of …

Objective To synthesise the literature on the effects of neighbourhood environmental change
through residential relocation on physical activity, walking and travel behaviour. Design …

Residential relocation is increasingly used as a natural experiment in epidemiological
studies to assess the health impact of changes in environmental exposures. Since the …

Background Walking is an essential activity for everyone and for older adults in particular,
given that it is the most accessible form of physical activity and one of the healthiest …

Many scientific papers that deal with the topic of the pedestrian environment use a
predefined form for assessing or evaluating its quality as a basic methodological instrument …

Residential relocation studies have become increasingly valuable tools for evaluating the
effects of changing living environments on human health, but little is known about their …