Do changes in residents' fear of crime impact their walking? Longitudinal results from RESIDE

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 161-166

  Foster, Sarah ^a   Knuiman, Matthew ^a   Hooper, Paula ^a   Christian, Hayley ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fear of crime; Longitudinal; Natural experiment; Neighbourhood; Physical activity; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CRIME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; LIKERT SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; SUBURBAN AREA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING; ADOLESCENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CRIME; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAFETY; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895729852     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.02.011     Document Type: Article

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