Built Environment and Physical Activity in New Zealand Adolescents: A Protocol for a Cross-sectional Study

Date
2014
Authors
Hinckson, EA
Duncan, S
Oliver, M
Mavoa, S
Cerin, E
Badland, H
Stewart, T
Ivory, V
McPhee, J
Schofield, G
Supervisor
Item type
Journal Article
Degree name
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
BMJ Open
Abstract

Built-environment interventions have the potential to provide population-wide effects and the means for a sustained effect on behaviour change. Population-wide effects for adult physical activity have been shown with selected built environment attributes; however, the association between the built environment and adolescent health behaviours is less clear. This New Zealand study is part of an international project across 10 countries (International Physical Activity and the Environment Network-adolescents) that aims to characterise the links between built environment and adolescent health outcomes.

Description
Keywords
Epidemiology , Preventive Medicine , Public Health
Source
BMJ Open, vol.4(4), doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004475
Rights statement
This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/