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

Health and Place

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-46

  Villanueva, Karen ^a   Knuiman, Matthew ^a   Nathan, Andrea ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^b   Christian, Hayley ^a   Foster, Sarah ^a   Bull, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adults; Life stage; Neighborhood buffer; Walkability; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HEALTH SURVEY; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN TRANSPORT; WALKING;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAND USE; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; WALKING; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WALKING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887568864     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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