Green space definition affects associations of green space with overweight and physical activity

Environmental Research

Volumn 160, Issue , 2018, Pages 531-540

  Klompmaker, Jochem O ^a,b   Hoek, Gerard ^b   Bloemsma, Lizan D ^a,b   Gehring, Ulrike ^b   Strak, Maciej ^b   Wijga, Alet H ^a   van den Brink, Carolien ^a   Brunekreef, Bert ^b,c   Lebret, Erik ^a,b   Janssen, Nicole A H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance to park; Green space exposure; Overweight, Physical activity; Surrounding greenness

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREENSPACE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; NDVI; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GREEN SPACE; HUMAN; LAND USE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; NETHERLANDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

NETHERLANDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OVERWEIGHT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85032364835     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.027     Document Type: Article

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