Housing and Community Environments vs. Independent Mobility: Roles in Promoting Children’s Independent Travel and Unsupervised Outdoor Play

Qiu, Lingyi; Zhu, Xuemei

doi:10.3390/ijerph18042132

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“…The physical and social environment, where people live, work and play, are important social determinants of health [20,21]. Most studies show that a mixed-use neighborhood, public transportation, and complete streets that support walking and biking could encourage pedestrian travel and physical activity [22][23][24]. The social environment and recreation facilities also play an important role in increasing physical activity [7,12,24,25].…”

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“…At the policy level, urban planning literature identifies the role of zoning [32,37] and cross-agency collaboration [9,16,38,39] in promoting community health. At the community level, research shows that physical activity is related to community features, including mixed-use neighborhoods, transportation services, complete streets [22][23][24], recreation and social activity [7,12,24,25], perceptions of safety [27][28][29], and metro status [5,6,39]. We use demographic structure to capture the individual level, including income, race, age, and commuting time.…”

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Linking Urban Planning, Community Environment, and Physical Activity: A Socio-Ecological Approach

Zhang

Warner

2023

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Lack of physical activity is a growing concern among public health advocates and urban planners. Our socio-ecological model incorporates urban planning and World Health Organization actions on physical activity to identify key factors related to leisure-time physical activity at the community level. Our 2019 nationwide US survey of 1312 communities enables examination of the influence of individual, community, and policy levels on physical activity. Individual factors—poverty, aging, minority population, and longer commuting time—result in lower physical activity. Community-level factors have both positive and negative effects. Physical activity is lower in rural and suburban communities, but higher in communities with more transportation services, recreation and social activities, and safety. Communities with mixed-use neighborhoods and complete streets also show higher levels of physical activity. At the policy level, zoning and cross-agency collaboration have an indirect effect on physical activity by increasing these community-level factors. This suggests an alternative approach to promoting physical activity. Local governments can promote transportation, recreation and safety, especially in rural and minority communities lacking active-friendly built environments and facing challenges from aging population, poverty, and longer commuting time. This socio-ecological approach can assess multilevel factors related to physical activity in other countries.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Linking Urban Planning, Community Environment, and Physical Activity: A Socio-Ecological Approach

Zhang

Warner

2023

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“…Thirtyone of the 47 papers base their findings on questionnaires, but few of these include children's perceptions of lighting or the lit environment, and if they do, the children are asked to answer a statement about how they perceive the lighting (e.g., positive or negative) or if lighting is present or not [e.g., Evenson et Another drawback in the papers is that the theoretical starting points are rarely explicitly stated, making it difficult to evaluate and interpret the findings. Recent systematic reviews on CIM have shown that it is associated with several attributes, such as socio-demographic, social and physical (134)(135)(136). It is therefore motivated to use theories that enable addressing the childenvironment relationship.…”

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Children's independent mobility during dark hours: a scoping review

Litsmark

Rahm

Mattsson

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionIndependent mobility is every child's right and has implications for their health, wellbeing, and development. This scoping review addresses children's needs and experiences of light conditions in their everyday outdoor life. The review examines peer-reviewed scientific literature that analyses associations between different light conditions and children's independent mobility (CIM) during dark hours.MethodsBy formulating a Boolean search string, including terms related to children independent mobility, light and outdoor environment, five scientific databases were searched. The search resulted in 67 eligible papers that were analyzed through an inductive, thematic analysis.ResultsFour overarching themes representing the researched topics of the effects of light conditions with importance for CIM during dark hours were identified: (1) physical activity (PA) and active travel, (2) outdoor activities and place use, (3) safety perception, and (4) outdoor risks. The findings highlight that darkness constitutes a major obstacle for CIM, and that fear of darkness is common among children. It restricts the degree of CIM and influences children's safety perception as well as how they navigate through public places outdoors. The findings show that the type and design of outdoor settings during dark hours and children's familiarity with places during daytime could play a role in the degree of CIM after dark. The presence of outdoor lighting is related to children's increased PA and active travel, and outdoor lighting seems to also influence children's place use and interaction with the environment. The presence and extent of outdoor lighting and lighting quality may play a role in children's safety perception, which in turn can influence CIM.DiscussionThe findings suggest that promoting CIM during dark hours might not only contribute to the accumulation of children's PA, confidence, and skills, but also support mental health. The understanding of children's perspectives on the quality of outdoor lighting needs to be deepened to support CIM. Highlighting the child perspective would aid the development of current recommendations for outdoor lighting and the implementation of the Agenda 2030 of ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages, and making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable throughout the day and seasons.

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“…In addition, they conclude that for autonomous play, unsupervised by parents, parents' consent is important. To a large extent, this consent is based on the safety of the green area, as well as that of the route to that area, as perceived by parents (Qiu and Zhu, 2021;Visser and van Aalst, 2022). Furthermore, not only officially designated (green) playgrounds are likely to be relevant but also informal playgrounds (Visser and van Aalst, 2022), including undeveloped green areas, at least when trees are present (Janssen and Rosu, 2015).…”

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Residential green space associated with the use of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication among Dutch children

Vries

Verheij

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Several studies have observed an inverse relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related behavior of children, as reported by parents or teachers, and the amount of green space in their residential environment. Research using other, more objective measures to determine ADHD prevalence is scarce and could strengthen the evidence base considerably. In this study, it is investigated whether a similar beneficial association will be observed if the use of ADHD-related medication is selected as an outcome measure. More specifically, registry data from a health insurance company on the reimbursement of ADHD-related medication in 2011 were available for 248,270 children between 5 and 12 years of age. Amounts of green space within 250 and 500 m of the home address were calculated. Multilevel logistic regression analyses for the prevalence of use were conducted, including the following covariates: sex, age, urbanity of the neighborhood, neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES), and percentage of people with a non-Western migration background in the neighborhood population. Results showed that the amount of green space was inversely related to the prevalence of use of ADHD medication. Moreover, the relationship was strongest among children living in the least wealthy neighborhoods and absent among those living in the wealthiest neighborhoods. Results also show that in less wealthy neighborhoods, there is, on average, less green space available nearby: children who are likely to benefit most from nearby green space tend to have the least of it.

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Housing and Community Environments vs. Independent Mobility: Roles in Promoting Children’s Independent Travel and Unsupervised Outdoor Play

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

Linking Urban Planning, Community Environment, and Physical Activity: A Socio-Ecological Approach

Linking Urban Planning, Community Environment, and Physical Activity: A Socio-Ecological Approach

Children's independent mobility during dark hours: a scoping review

Residential green space associated with the use of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication among Dutch children

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