Density, Destinations or Both? A Comparison of Measures of Walkability in Relation to Transportation Behaviors, Obesity and Diabetes in Toronto, Canada

The design of suburban communities encourages car dependency and discourages walking, characteristics that have been implicated in the rise of obesity. Walkability measures have been developed to capture these features of urban built environments. Our objective was to examine the individual and comb...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 9; no. 1; p. e85295
Main Authors:	Glazier, Richard H., Creatore, Maria I., Weyman, Jonathan T., Fazli, Ghazal, Matheson, Flora I., Gozdyra, Peter, Moineddin, Rahim, Shriqui, Vered Kaufman, Booth, Gillian L.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 14.01.2014 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Automotive parts Availability Behavior Bicycles Bicycling Biology Body weight Built environment Child Child, Preschool Density Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology Diabetes Mellitus - physiopathology Engineering Female Health aspects Health surveys Hospitals Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Knowledge Land use Male Medicine Middle Aged Neighborhoods Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - physiopathology Ontario - epidemiology Overweight Population Population Density Public health Public transportation Residential density Social and Behavioral Sciences Studies Suburban areas Transportation - statistics & numerical data Transportation industry Transportation planning Urban environments Urban transportation Walking Young Adult Ontario Toronto Ontario Canada Canada
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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