Built Environment and Its Influences on Walking among Older Women: Use of Standardized Geographic Units to Define Urban Forms
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Built Environment and Its Influences on Walking among Older Women: Use of Standardized Geographic Units to Define Urban Forms
Consensus is lacking on specific and policy-relevant measures of neighborhood attributes that may affect health outcomes. To address this limitation, we created small standardized geographic units measuring the transit, commercial, and park area access, intersection, and population density for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Cluster analysis was used to identify six unique urban forms: ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental and Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1687-9805,1687-9813
DOI: 10.1155/2012/203141