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Environmental and Policy Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Through Physical Activity: Issues and Opportunities
Abby C. King,Robert W. Jeffery,Fred Fridinger,Linda Dusenbury,Susan Provence,Sonja Hedlund,Kathy Spangler +6 more
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Evidence is presented on the need, formulation, description, and effectiveness of policy and environmental intervention approaches in promoting physical activity to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other chronic diseases.Abstract:
The majority of Americans remain inactive despite evidence of significant health benefits from even moderately intense activity. Previous intervention efforts have generally focused on changing individual behavior. This article discusses the use of policy, legislative and regulatory, and environmental interventions in promoting physical activity to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other chronic diseases. The authors present evidence on the need, formulation, description, and effectiveness of policy and environmental intervention approaches. Types of approaches addressed to promote physical activity include federal, state, and local legislation and regulation, policy development and implementation, and environmental support. They also describe opportunities for state and local health departments to initiate and participate in environmental and policy approaches.read more
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An ecological approach to creating active living communities.
James F. Sallis,Robert Cervero,William Ascher,Karla A. Henderson,M. Katherine Kraft,Jacqueline Kerr +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that multilevel interventions based on ecological models and targeting individuals, social environments, physical environments, and policies must be implemented to achieve population change in physical activity.
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Environmental correlates of walking and cycling: Findings from the transportation, urban design, and planning literatures
TL;DR: In this article, neighborhood environment characteristics proposed to be relevant to walking/cycling for transport are defined, including population density, connectivity, and land use mix, with evidence suggesting that residents from communities with higher density, greater connectivity and more land-use mix report higher rates of walking and cycling for utilitarian purposes than low-density, poorly connected, and single land use neighborhoods.
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Dissecting obesogenic environments: the development and application of a framework for identifying and prioritizing environmental interventions for obesity.
TL;DR: The ANGELO framework appears to be a flexible and robust instrument for the needs analysis and problem identification stages of reducing the obesogenicity of modern environments.
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Environmental factors associated with adults' participation in physical activity: a review
TL;DR: Physical environment factors have consistent associations with physical activity behavior and further development of ecologic and environmental models, together with behavior-specific and context-specific measurement strategies, should help in further understanding of these associations.
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Environmental Influences on Eating and Physical Activity
TL;DR: Current trends in food supply, eating out, physical activity, and inactivity are reviewed, as are the effects of advertising, promotion, and pricing on eating and physical activity.
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