Built Environment's Influence on Physical Activity: Review and Thought
Promoting human's physical activity,especially walking by built environment design is an important entry point for human's health interventions in urban planning.There is a growing of literature on the relationships between the built environment and physical activity in public health,transportation,urban planning and other related fields.However,whether built environment can and how it affects the residents' physical activity is still unclear due to the complexity of their relationships and differences in methodologies.This paper summarizes the problems and challenges for future research from the existing research,and it's also a theoretical foundation for active health interventions in human settlement.
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