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Walking to Public Transit: Steps to Help Meet Physical Activity Recommendations

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Walking to and from public transportation can help physically inactive populations, especially low-income and minority groups, attain the recommended level of daily physical activity.
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This article is published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2005-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 643 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surgeon general & Public transport.

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Is the popularity of social networking services beneficial for public health? Focusing on active travel and BMI

TL;DR: It is found that there is no significant association between the frequency of SNS use and the authors' subjective measure of active travel, while people who intensively use SNS are more likely to be obese than non-users, however, analyses with an objective measure of average walking hours (GPS) show that people whointensively used SNS spend less time walking and tend to be obesity, calling for further analyses.
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Healthy places, healthy people.

TL;DR: To comprehensively address the problem of physical inactivity, interventions need to target both the individual and the environments in which people live and work.
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Modal Shift from Cars and Promotion of Walking by Providing Pedometers in Yokohama City, Japan.

TL;DR: The relationship between the physical and social environments of Yokohama Walking Point Program participants and their modal shifts from cars to walking and public transport were examined to suggest that mobility management should be promoted in collaboration with public health and city planning professionals.
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Evaluating The Unintended Impacts Of Socio-economic And Demographic Shifts In Transit Served Neighborhoods On Mode Choice And Equity

Steven Apell
TL;DR: In this article, the UNINTENDED IMPACTS of SOCIO-ECONOMIC and DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS in TRANSIT SERVED NEIGHBORHOODS ON MODE CHOICE AND EQUITY.
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Physical Activity And Health: A Report Of The Surgeon General

TL;DR: This report is the first report of the Surgeon General on physical activity and health, and strong evidence is shown to indicate that regular physical activity will provide clear and substantial health gains.
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Physical Activity and Public Health

Paul T. Williams
- 16 Aug 1995 - 
TL;DR: Further explanation is required of Dr Pate and colleagues' Figures 1 and 2 and the recommendation's contradiction with research that supports more vigorous activity, as well as their Figure 1, which shows a diminishing return in health benefit with increasing exercise level.
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Neighborhood-Based Differences in Physical Activity: An Environment Scale Evaluation

TL;DR: Neighborhood environment was associated with physical activity and overweight prevalence and the reliability and validity of self-reported neighborhood environment subscales were supported.
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How the built environment affects physical activity: views from urban planning

TL;DR: To provide more conclusive evidence, the available evidence lends itself to the argument that a combination of urban design, land use patterns, and transportation systems that promotes walking and bicycling will help create active, healthier, and more livable communities.
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Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

Results from this study may contribute to health impact assessment studies ( HIA ) that evaluate the impact of proposed public transit systems on physical activity levels, and thereby may influence choices made by transportation planners. 

Improvements to the built environment, such as ncreased access to public transit, may provide a viable nd effective option to promote and maintain active ifestyles.he authors would like to thank Sandra Ham at the Centers or Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition nd Physical Activity for her comments and suggestions. 

22easons for more walking among low-income populaions could be that they are more likely to live in urban reas with better access to transit or are less likely to wn a personal automobile. 

This study also suggests that 29% of ransit walkers achieve 30 minutes of daily physical ctivity solely by walking to and from transit. 

For xample, results from this report are being used to stimate the amount of transit-related walking that ould result from a proposed 22-mile, urban light-rail oop in Atlanta.30 HIA studies may influence choices ade by transportation planners and other communityecision makers. 

People walking 30 minutes to and from transit were significantly ore likely to be African American, Hispanic, Asian/ acific Islander, or from another race/ethnic category han to be white, and were somewhat (borderline ignificant association) more likely to live in an area ith 4000 to 9999 people per square mile than in an rea with 4000 people per square mile (OR 1.63, 5% CI 0.99–2.68). 

This study rovides some evidence that walking to and from ransit can help physically inactive populations (espeially minority groups and people of lower socioecoomic status) attain 30 minutes of daily physical activty.