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Barbara B. Brown
Researcher at University of Utah
Publications - 99
Citations - 6871
Barbara B. Brown is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Walkability & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 99 publications receiving 6209 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara B. Brown include Texas Christian University & Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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A Transactional Approach to Interpersonal Relations: Physical Environment, Social Context and Temporal Qualities
TL;DR: In this paper, a program of research has explored the implications of a transactional worldview for research on personal relationships, emphasizing the importance of the physical and social environments for individual and relational viability.
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Crime, New housing, and housing incivilities in a first‐ring suburb: Multilevel relationships across time
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrated concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City.
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Re-visiting the relationship between neighbourhood environment and BMI: an instrumental variables approach to correcting for residential selection bias
Cathleen D. Zick,Heidi A. Hanson,Heidi A. Hanson,Jessie X. Fan,Ken R. Smith,Ken R. Smith,Lori Kowaleski-Jones,Barbara B. Brown,Ikuho Yamada +8 more
TL;DR: Evidence that residential selection leads to an understatement of the causal effects of neighbourhood walkability features on BMI is found, and the contention that public policies designed to alter neighbourhoodWalkability may moderately affect the BMI of large numbers of individuals is supported.
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Assessing Built Environment Walkability using Activity-Space Summary Measures.
TL;DR: Methods for assessing walkability within individual activity spaces: the geographic region accessible to an individual during a given walking trip, using data from an empirical study of built environment walkability and walking behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
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Light rail use is more likely on “walkable” blocks: Further support for using micro-level environmental audit measures
TL;DR: In this article, the Irvine Minnesota Inventory (IMIMI) was used to measure walkability features of 19 blocks in a revitalizing neighborhood and the results show the ability of the IMI to distinguish among blocks in walkability, and support further use of this audit tool in environmental analyses and active living research.