Top 10 research questions related to assessing physical activity and its contexts using systematic observation

TL McKenzie, H Van Der Mars - Research quarterly for exercise …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous methods are available to assess physical activity (PA) but systematic observation
(SO) excels in being able to provide contextually rich data on the setting in which the activity …

The role of objective and perceived built environments in affecting dockless bike-sharing as a feeder mode choice of metro commuting

Y Guo, SY He - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid growth of dockless bike-sharing (DBS) systems has attracted increased academic
attention in the solutions to first-and last-mile problems. However, only a few studies have …

How does the school built environment impact students' bullying behaviour? A scoping review

J Francis, N Strobel, G Trapp, N Pearce, S Vaz… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale School bullying is a public health concern affecting the physical and mental health
of children and young people. While school-based interventions to prevent bullying have …

Cognability: An ecological theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging

J Finlay, M Esposito, KM Langa, S Judd… - Social science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
While a growing body of evidence points to potentially modifiable individual risk factors for
dementia, the built and social environments in which people develop and navigate cognitive …

How perceptions mediate the effects of the built environment on travel behavior?

L Ma, J Cao - Transportation, 2019 - Springer
This study provides a better understand the mechanism underlying the built environment-
behavior connection by systematically exploring the relationships between the objective …

The role of urban morphology design on enhancing physical activity and public health

S Fathi, H Sajadzadeh… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health.
The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in …

[HTML][HTML] Validity of Walk Score® as a measure of neighborhood walkability in Japan

MJ Koohsari, T Sugiyama, T Hanibuchi… - Preventive medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective measures of environmental attributes have been used to understand how
neighborhood environments relate to physical activity. However, this method relies on …

(Re) Designing the built environment to support physical activity: Bringing public health back into urban design and planning

MJ Koohsari, H Badland, B Giles-Corti - Cities, 2013 - Elsevier
While public health and urban planning fields worked closely to tackle communicable
disease outbreaks in the 19th century, this collaboration faded during the 20th century. Over …

The objective versus the perceived environment: what matters for bicycling?

L Ma, J Dill, C Mohr - Transportation, 2014 - Springer
This paper examines the relationship between the objectively measured and perceived built
environment, and the relative strength of their association with bicycling behavior. By …

Neighborhood built environment and transport and leisure physical activity: findings using objective exposure and outcome measures in New Zealand

K Witten, T Blakely, N Bagheri, H Badland… - Environmental …, 2012 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Evidence of associations between neighborhood built environments and
transport-related physical activity (PA) is accumulating, but few studies have investigated …