The impact of neighborhood walkability on walking: Does it differ across adult life stage and does neighborhood buffer size matter?

Karen Villanueva; Matthew Knuiman; Andrea Nathan; Billie Giles-Corti; Hayley Christian; Sarah Foster; Fiona Bull

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The impact of neighborhood walkability on walking: Does it differ across adult life stage and does neighborhood buffer size matter?

Karen Villanueva, Matthew Knuiman, Andrea Nathan, Billie Giles-Corti, Hayley Christian, Sarah Foster, Fiona Bull

HEALTH & PLACE | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.10.005

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Billie Giles-Corti Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (i.e., Healthway) provided funding (#18922). The Department of Health of Western Australia, and WA Data Linkage Branch is gratefully acknowledged for providing survey data and extracting built environment data. Ethics approval for the project was obtained from The University of Western Australian Human Research Ethics Committee and the Department of Health of Western Australia's Ethics Committee (#2010/1). Spatial data based on information provided by and with the permission of the (c) Western Australian Land Information Authority (i.e., Landgate) was used. Nick Middleton, Sharyn Hickey and Bridget Beesley are gratefully acknowledged for developing GIS scripts and processing GIS measures. HC is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/National Heart Foundation Early Career Fellowship (#1036350); SF by a Healthway Health Promotion Research Fellowship (#21363); BGC by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellow Award (#1004900).