Do Differences in Social Environments Explain Gender Differences in Recreational Walking across Neighbourhoods?
| Autor: | Jerome N. Rachele, Fatima Ghani, Gavin Turrell, Venurs H.Y. Loh, Simon Washington |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Population Poison control lcsh:Medicine Walking Article urban planning ecological interventions 03 medical and health sciences Interpersonal relationship social environment Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Residence Characteristics Injury prevention multilevel modelling Humans Interpersonal Relations 030212 general & internal medicine education between-neighbourhood variation Recreation Neighbourhood (mathematics) gender equality Aged education.field_of_study Multilevel model lcsh:R Australia Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social environment 030229 sport sciences recreational walking random coefficients Middle Aged 16. Peace & justice sustainable development goals Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models sustainable cities and communities Female Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 16 Issue 11 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 11, p 1980 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph16111980 |
| Popis: | Within a city, gender differences in walking for recreation (WfR) vary significantly across neighbourhoods, although the reasons remain unknown. This cross-sectional study investigated the contribution of the social environment (SE) to explaining such variation, using 2009 data from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence healTh and AcTivity (HABITAT) study, including 7866 residents aged 42&ndash 67 years within 200 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia (72.6% response rate). The analytical sample comprised 200 neighbourhoods and 6643 participants (mean 33 per neighbourhood, range 8&ndash 99, 95% CI 30.6&ndash 35.8). Self-reported weekly minutes of WfR were categorised into 0 and 1&ndash 840 mins. The SE was conceptualised through neighbourhood-level perceptions of social cohesion, incivilities and safety from crime. Analyses included multilevel binomial logistic regression with gender as main predictor, adjusting for age, socioeconomic position, residential self-selection and neighbourhood disadvantage. On average, women walked more for recreation than men prior to adjustment for covariates. Gender differences in WfR varied significantly across neighbourhoods, and the magnitude of the variation for women was twice that of men. The SE did not explain neighbourhood differences in the gender&ndash WfR relationship, nor the between-neighbourhood variation in WfR for men or women. Neighbourhood-level factors seem to influence the WfR of men and women differently, with women being more sensitive to their environment, although Brisbane&rsquo s SE did not seem such a factor. |
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