Access to health-promoting facilities and amenities

Anne Ellaway; Neil Ferguson; Karen Elaine Lamb; David Ogilvie

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6672-7_7

Access to health-promoting facilities and amenities

Anne Ellaway, Neil Ferguson, Karen Elaine Lamb, David Ogilvie

Civil And Environmental Engineering

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the existing literature on the importance of the built environment to obesity and examines how local facilities, such as physical activity amenities, are distributed across different sorts of neighbourhoods. The issue of access to these facilities using different forms of transport (walking, cycling, bus or car) is explored using data from a Scotland wide study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Neighbourhood structure and health promotion
Editors	Christiane Stock, Anne Ellaway
Publisher	Springer
Pages	117-126
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781461466710
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6672-7_7
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

health and hospitals
health promotion
disease prevention
landscape planning
urban planning
regional planning
health-promoting facilities
amenities

UN SDGs

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Access to health-promoting facilities and amenities

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Associations between access to recreational physical activity facilities and body mass index in Scottish adults

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