Neighborhood characteristics favorable to outdoor physical activity: disparities by socioeconomic and racial/ethnic composition
| Autor: | Paula M Cuccaro, M. Janice Gilliland, Luisa Franzini, Jo Anne Grunbaum, Mark A. Schuster, Susan R. Tortolero, Wendell C. Taylor, Marc N. Elliott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Health (social science) Poverty media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Ethnic group Psychological intervention Social environment Environment Motor Activity Social Environment Health equity Residence Characteristics Environmental health Perception Poverty Areas Ethnicity Humans Residence Psychology Child Socioeconomic status media_common |
| Zdroj: | Healthplace. 16(2) |
| ISSN: | 1873-2054 |
| Popis: | This paper uses a socioecological framework to investigate socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in neighborhood characteristics that are associated with outdoor physical activity. We surveyed 632 parents of 5th graders about perceptions of their neighborhood social processes and collected systematic observations of the physical environment on their block-face of residence. Higher poverty neighborhoods and non-White neighborhoods have better accessibility; however, they are less safe, less comfortable, and less pleasurable for outdoor physical activity, and have less favorable social processes. Interventions to reduce disparities in physical activity should address not only the physical environment, but also social processes favorable to physical activity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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