Sharing good NEWS across the world: Developing comparable scores across 12 countries for the neighborhood environment walkability scale (NEWS)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cerin, Ester ^a,m   Conway, Terry L ^b   Cain, Kelli L ^b   Kerr, Jacqueline ^b   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^c   Owen, Neville ^d   Reis, Rodrigo S ^e   Sarmiento, Olga L ^f   Hinckson, Erica A ^g   Salvo, Deborah ^h   Christiansen, Lars B ⁱ   MacFarlane, Duncan J ^a   Davey, Rachel ^j   Mitáš, Josef ^k   Aguinaga Ontoso, Ines ^l   Sallis, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^g AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^k PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^l PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^m DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Built environment; Confirmatory factor analysis; Global; Pooled analyses; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WALKING;

ADULT; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84875830715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-309     Document Type: Article

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