Moving to policy-amenable options for built environment research: The role of micro-scale neighborhood environment in promoting walking.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results imply that micro-scale features of neighborhoods collectively promote leisure walking but not necessarily utilitarian walking, even after accounting for self-selection. In contrast, macro-scale features may collectively promote utilitarian walking, but not leisure walking. Micro scale features of neighborhoods fall within the budget of local jurisdictions and our results suggest that jurisdictions that improve micro-scale features may expect increased leisure walking in populations. PMID: 33120068 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Health and Place - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Health Place Source Type: research