International Comparison of Observation-specific Spatial Buffers: Maximizing the Ability to Estimate Physical Activity
International Comparison of Observation-specific Spatial Buffers: Maximizing the Ability to Estimate Physical Activity
Date
2017-01-23
Authors
Frank, LD
Fox, EH
Ulmer, JM
Chapman, JE
Kershaw, SE
Sallis, JF
Conway, TL
Cerin, E
Cain, KL
Adams, MA
Supervisor
Item type
Journal Article
Degree name
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
BioMed Central
Abstract
Advancements in geographic information systems over the past two decades have increased the specificity by which an individual's neighborhood environment may be spatially defined for physical activity and health research. This study investigated how different types of street network buffering methods compared in measuring a set of commonly used built environment measures (BEMs) and tested their performance on associations with physical activity outcomes.
Description
Keywords
Built environment , GIS methods , Network buffer , Reliability , Self-reported physical activity
Source
International journal of health geographics, 16(1), 4.
Rights statement
© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license,
and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/
publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.