Reconnecting urban planning with health: A protocol for the development and validation of national liveability indicators associated with noncommunicable disease risk behaviours and health outcomes

Public Health Research and Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Giles Corti, Billie ^a,b,c   Badland, Hannah ^a,c   Mavoa, Suzanne ^a,c   Turrell, Gavin ^c,d   Bull, Fiona ^b,c   Boruff, Bryan ^b,c   Pettit, Chris ^a,c   Bauman, Adrian ^e   Hooper, Paula ^b,c   Villanueva, Karen ^a,c   Astell Burt, Thomas ^c,f,g   Feng, Xiaoqi ^c,f,h   Learnihan, Vincent ⁱ   Davey, Rachel ⁱ   Grenfell, Rob ^a,j   Thackway, Sarah ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Monash and Adelaide Universities   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^j NATIONAL HEART FOUNDATION OF AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^k Centre for Population Health   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITY PLANNING; CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STANDARDS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING;

AUSTRALIA; BICYCLING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SAFETY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; TRANSPORTATION; WALKING;

EID: 84993661820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22042091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17061/phrp2511405     Document Type: Article

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