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Exploring the spatial scale effects of built environments on transport walking: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Health & place, v 73, pp 102722-102722
01 Jan 2022
PMID: 34864555
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Abstract
We employed a longitudinal distributed lag modeling approach to systematically estimate how associations between built environment features and transport walking decayed with the increase of distance from home to built environment destinations. Data came from a cohort recruited from six U.S. cities (follow-up 2000-2010, N = 3913, baseline mean age 60). Built environment features included all walkable destinations, consisting of common and popular destinations for daily life. We also included two subsets frequent social destinations and food stores to examine if the spatial scale effects differed by varying density for different types of built environment destinations. Adjusted results found that increases in transport walking diminished when built environment destinations were farther, although distance thresholds varied across different types of built environment destinations. Higher availability of walking destinations within 2-km and frequent social destinations within 1.6-km were associated with transport walking. Food stores were not associated with transport walking. This new information will help policymakers and urban designers understand at what distances each type of built environment destinations influences transport walking, in turn informing the development of interventions and/or the placement of amenities within neighborhoods to promote transport walking. The findings that spatial scales depend on specific built environment features also highlight the need for methods that can more flexibly estimate associations between outcomes and different built environment features across varying contexts, in order to improve our understanding of the spatial mechanisms involved in said associations.
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- Title
- Exploring the spatial scale effects of built environments on transport walking: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
- Creators
- Jingjing Li - Drexel UniversityAmy H. Auchincloss - Drexel UniversityJana A. Hirsch - Drexel UniversitySteven J. Melly - Drexel UniversityKari A. Moore - Drexel UniversityAdam Peterson - University of MichiganBrisa N. Sanchez - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Health & place, v 73, pp 102722-102722
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- 1R01AG049970; 3R01AG049970-04S1 / National Institute of Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) N01-HC-95159; N01-HC-95160; N01-HC-95161; N01-HC-95162; N01-HC-95163; N01-HC-95164; N01-HC-95165; N01-HC-95166; N01-HC-95167; N01-HC-95168; N01-HC-95169 / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University Built Environment and Health Research Group at Columbia University UL1-TR-000040; UL1-TR-001079 / National Center for Research Resources; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) R01 HL131610; R01 HL071759 / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (USA); United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) 4100072543 / Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (C.U.R.E) program - Pennsylvania Department of Health - 2015 Formula award - SAP
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000735296600003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85120400985
- Other Identifier
- 991019168382804721
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