Do State Comprehensive Planning Statutes Address Physical Activity?: Implications for Rural Communities

Charron, Lisa M.; Milstein, Chloe; Moyers, Samantha; Abildso, Christiaan G.; Chriqui, Jamie F.

doi:10.3390/ijerph182212190

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“…The present study addresses the research questions by identifying the prevalence, purpose, and contexts of references to EBPRs in state statutes and regulations. It represents a study of the entire population of mandates that mention any existing EBPRs, similar to a study which examined state comprehensive planning statutes that address physical activity (Charron et al 2021).…”

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References to Evidence-based Program Registry (EBPR) Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations

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Magura

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Journal of Applied Social Science

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U.S. state governments have the responsibility to regulate and license behavioral health care interventions, such as for addiction and mental illness, with increasing emphasis on implementing evidence-based programs (EBPs). A serious obstacle to this is lack of clarity or agreement about what constitutes “evidence-based.” The study’s purpose was to determine the extent to which and in what contexts web-based Evidence-based Program Registries (EBPRs) are referenced in state government statutes and regulations (“mandates”) concerning behavioral health care. Examples are What Works Clearinghouse, National Register of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The study employed the Westlaw Legal Research Database to search for 30 known EBPR websites relevant to behavioral health care within the statutes and regulations of all 50 states. There was low prevalence of EBPR references in state statutes and regulations pertaining to behavioral health care; 20 states had a total of 33 mandates that referenced an EBPR. These mandates usually do not rely on an EBPR as the sole acceptable source for classifying a program or practice as “evidence-based.” Instead, EBPRs were named in conjunction with internal state or external sources of information about putative program effectiveness, which may be less valid than EBPRs, to determine what is “evidence-based.” Greater awareness of scientifically based EBPRs and greater understanding of their advantages need to be fostered among state legislators and regulators charged with making policy to increase or improve the use of evidence-based programs and practices in behavioral health care in the United States.

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References to Evidence-based Program Registry (EBPR) Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations

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Maranda

Magura

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Journal of Applied Social Science

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“…Prior analyses of laws impacting PA have mainly occurred in the United States in relation to environmental trail legislation [26], Complete Streets statutes [27] and comprehensive planning state statutes for rural communities [28]. To our knowledge, scientific legal mapping has not been used in Australia or to analyse, in a comprehensive and integrated way, the laws regulating the built environment for PA.…”

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Mapping and analysis of laws influencing built environments for walking and cycling in Australia

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Background Physical inactivity is a significant public health concern, with limited signs of improvement despite a global commitment to achieving the World Health Organization’s target of 15% reduction by 2030. A systems approach is required to tackle this issue, involving the creation of environments that are conducive to physical activity. Laws represent an important tool for regulating the built environment for physical activity, are a mechanism for systems change, and have the capacity to reorient the goals and rules of a system. However, they are understudied and potentially underutilised for physical activity. Scientific legal mapping is a first step towards understanding how laws could impact the built environment to facilitate greater population physical activity. Method We conducted a legal assessment of state and territory laws in Australia, to systematically characterise how they address built environment considerations with specific relevance to walking and cycling. An interdisciplinary team of researchers with public health, law and urban planning expertise was formed to complete the multistage process. Key steps included a systematic search of laws using a combination of original legal research, consultation of secondary sources, and review and verification by an urban planning expert; development of a coding scheme; and completion of coding and quality control procedures. Results Most jurisdictions in Australia do not currently embed objectives in primary legislation that would promote physical activity and support an integrated approach to land use and transport planning that encourages active and sustainable lifestyles. Only two jurisdictions addressed the large majority of evidence-based standards that promote active living. Of the standards addressed in law, few fully met evidence-based recommendations. While most jurisdictions legislated responsibility for enforcement of planning law, few legislated obligations for monitoring implementation. Conclusion Increasing physical activity is a systems issue, requiring actions across multiple sectors. An in-depth examination of the legal environment is an important step towards understanding and influencing the existing physical activity system, why it may not be generating desired outcomes, and potential opportunities for improvement. Our findings reveal opportunities where laws could be strengthened to promote more active environments. Updating this dataset periodically will generate longitudinal data that could be used to evaluate the impact of these laws on the built environment and physical activity behaviours.

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“…4 Examples of state-level plan synthesis and analysis include research on obesity plans 5 and public health plans. 6 Finally, policy-level examples include research on districtand state-level physical education policies, 7 state comprehensive planning statutes, 8 zoning codes, 9 and land use policies. 10 While the data sets created from these research studies may be available for public use, the documents behind these data sets often are not.…”

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Creating a Community-Level Document Library: Application Using Vision Zero Plans

Evenson

Keefe

LaJeunesse

et al. 2023

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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McLeroy et al 1 proposed the ecologic model as a way to understand the multilayered influences on health behaviors more than three decades ago. Specifically, the model defined the multiple layers of influence on behavior at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community/environment, and policy levels. Historically, the environmental and policy levels had received less attention for their important contributions to healthy and safe behaviors. However, since the publication of this model, researchers have applied the model extensively to a variety of behaviors, with newfound interest on environment and policy levels of influence.When seeking to understand the impact of environment-and policy-level factors on health and safety behaviors, it is common for researchers to systematically collect community-level documents at the local, regional, or state level, such as plans or policies, in order to extract and understand specific community-level factors, exposures, or potential

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Do State Comprehensive Planning Statutes Address Physical Activity?: Implications for Rural Communities

Cited by 4 publications

References 51 publications

References to Evidence-based Program Registry (EBPR) Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations

References to Evidence-based Program Registry (EBPR) Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations

Mapping and analysis of laws influencing built environments for walking and cycling in Australia

Creating a Community-Level Document Library: Application Using Vision Zero Plans

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