Browsing Kinesiology Faculty Research and Publications by Subject "Built environment"

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Browsing Kinesiology Faculty Research and Publications by Subject "Built environment"

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  • Associations between the built environment and physical activity in public housing residents
    Heinrich, Katie M.; Lee, Rebecca E.; Suminski, Richard R.; Regan, Gail R.; Reese-Smith, Jacqueline Y.; Howard, Hugh H.; Haddock, C. Keith; Poston, Walker S. Carlos; Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. (2007)
    Background: Environmental factors may influence the particularly low rates of physical activity in African American and low-income adults. This cross-sectional study investigated how measured environmental factors were ...
  • The Census of Social Institutions (CSI): a public health direct observation measure of local land use
    Heinrich, Katie M.; Hughey, Joseph; Randles, Anthony; Wall, Dustin; Peterson, N. Andrew; Jitnarin, Nattinee; Berkel, LaVerne; Eaton, Peter; Bowles, Doug; Haddock, C. Keith; Poston, W. S. Carlos (2010)
    This manuscript describes the development of the Census of Social Institutions (CSI), a reliable direct observation parcel-level built environment measure. The CSI was used to measure all nonresidential parcels (n=10,842) ...
  • Obesity and the built environment
    Booth, Katie M.; Pinkston, Megan M.; Poston, Walker S. Carlos (2005)
    Biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors are unable to fully explain or curtail the obesity epidemic. The goal of this paper is to provide a review of research on the influence of the built environment ...