Sub-population differences in the relationship between the neighborhood environment and Latinas' daily walking and vehicle time

Serrano, Natalicio; Perez, Lilian G.; Carlson, Jordan; Patrick, Kevin; Kerr, Jacqueline; Holub, Christina; Arredondo, Elva M.

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2018.01.006

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“…The former hypothesised that the objective built environment influenced walking through perceived environment (Ma and Cao 2017;Orstad et al 2017); while the latter proposed that the relationships between objective environment and walking depends on the perceived environment. For instance, some recent studies have explored various moderation effects between neighbourhood environment and physical activity through psychosocial factors (Serrano et al 2018;Perez et al 2016), and walking attitudes (Yang and Diez-Roux 2017). However, the effects of perceived environment in moderating the relationships between objective neighbourhood characteristics and three types of walking frequency are understudied and deserve more structured examination.…”

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The role of perceived environment, neighbourhood characteristics, and attitudes in walking behaviour: evidence from a rapidly developing city in China

2019

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The associations between objective and subjective dimensions of the built environment and walking behaviour have been examined extensively in existing studies. However, the interaction effects of those dimensions of the built environment on walking behaviour are understudied and may be more complex than hitherto suggested. Apart from the subjective dimensions of the built environment, walking attitudes also play a role in moderating these relationships. This paper investigates the independent and joint effects of objective neighbourhood characteristics, people's perceptions of the neighbourhood environment, and walking attitudes on the frequency of walking by using Shenzhen as a case study. Since those effects may vary across different kinds of walking trips, the analysis looks separately at three major types of walking at the neighbourhood level-walking for work/school, walking for leisure/recreation, and walking for household responsibilities. Logistic regression analyses confirm that the correlates of people's walking frequency vary considerably among different types of walking. Statistically significant interaction effects of objective neighbourhood characteristics and perceived environment are found. The results suggest that positive perceptions of the environment can compensate for the effect that low objective walkability of neighbourhoods has on people's walking frequency. When seeking to encouraging walking at the neighbourhood level, policymakers should not only concentrate on improving objective neighbourhood characteristics but also consider people's perception of the neighbourhood environment and their attitudes towards walking.

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The role of perceived environment, neighbourhood characteristics, and attitudes in walking behaviour: evidence from a rapidly developing city in China

2019

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“…Other factors include characteristics and constraints related to families and households, policies, and elements of the social environment (Sallis et al, 2006). These layers of environmental influence help to explain why standard physical environment-focused measures of walkability, and their usefulness for predicting behavior, may vary across socioeconomic and sociocultural contexts (Adkins et al, 2017; Day, 2006; Frank et al, 2008; Sallis et al, 2009; Serrano et al, 2018). A review of studies from the fields of public health, planning, and transportation showed that the effect of a walkable physical environment on walking and physical activity was about half as strong for low-income, people of color, and those with lower educational attainment than for relatively socioeconomically advantaged groups (Adkins et al, 2017).…”

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Differences in social and physical dimensions of perceived walkability in Mexican American and non-hispanic white walking environments in Tucson, Arizona

Adkins

Barillas-Longoria

Martínez

et al. 2019

Journal of Transport & Health

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Introduction: Physical activity patterns within the U.S. vary greatly across ethnicity, with data generally indicating lower rates among Hispanic/Latino adults. At the same time, Hispanic/Latino pedestrians face higher rates of injury and fatalities. Despite the importance of supportive physical activity environments on both health and safety outcomes, limited attention has been paid to ethnic or cultural differences in perceptions of supportive environments for walking. To fill this gap, we explore differences in physical and social environment contributors to perceived walkability between pedestrians in predominantly (> 70%) Mexican American and predominantly non-Hispanic white areas in Tucson, Arizona. Methods: In early 2017 the research team conducted brief on-street intercept interviews with pedestrians (N = 190) to learn about the environmental attributes associated with pedestrian perceptions of walkability. Study locations were matched for similar physical walkability metrics, income, and poverty rates. Consensus-based thematic coding identified 14 attributes of the built and social environment that contributed, positively and negatively, to perceptions of walkability. Results: Attributes of the social environment, both positive (i.e., social interaction, social cohesion, and community identity) and negative (i.e., crime/security), were more frequently expressed as components of walkability in Mexican American study areas while physical environment attributes (i.e., infrastructure, street crossings, and aesthetics) were more frequently mentioned in non-Hispanic white areas. Conclusions: Contributors to perceived walkability in non-Hispanic white study areas were largely consistent with existing built environment-focused walkability metrics. Differences seen in Mexican American areas suggest a need to better understand differences across populations, expand the construct of walkability to consider social environment attributes, and account for interactions between social and physical environments. Results highlight the need for collaboration between public health and planning professionals, to evaluate walkability using culturally relevant measures that account for the social environment, particularly in Mexican American and other communities of color.

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“…Esto tendría una extensión a los comportamientos de viaje, según ha sido mostrado en el caso estadounidense (Cain y Flynn, 2013). De forma más particular, también se ha señalado en el caso de Estados Unidos que los niveles mayores de educación se traducen en un uso más intenso del automóvil (Serrano et al, 2018), o en la preferencia por sistemas de transporte público de alta calidad como el tren ligero (Cain y Flynn, 2013). En el otro lado del espectro social, los estratos bajos, ante los elevados niveles de inseguridad, no pueden dejar de usar el transporte público, pues no tienen recursos suficientes para encontrar alternativas económicas de viaje, según han documentado Halat et al (2015) para el caso estadounidense.…”

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Estratificación Social Y Uso Del Transporte Público en El Contexto De La Crisis De Seguridad en México

Reíllo

2022

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Este artículo se pregunta cómo incide la creciente violencia vivida en México en el uso del transporte público. Se parte del supuesto teórico de que la existencia de inseguridad motiva cambios en los comportamientos de viaje, que implican un menor uso del transporte público. El objetivo del trabajo es averiguar si estos supuestos cambios en los comportamientos de viaje están condicionados por la estratificación social. La hipótesis que se pone a prueba señala que los estratos medios altos y altos abandonan de forma más destacada el transporte público ante situaciones de inseguridad ciudadana. Para comprobar esta hipótesis se realiza una explotación estadística, basada en análisis descriptivos y de regresión logística de la Encuesta Nacional sobre Victimización y Percepción de la Seguridad Pública 2018 del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), México.

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Sub-population differences in the relationship between the neighborhood environment and Latinas' daily walking and vehicle time

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

The role of perceived environment, neighbourhood characteristics, and attitudes in walking behaviour: evidence from a rapidly developing city in China

The role of perceived environment, neighbourhood characteristics, and attitudes in walking behaviour: evidence from a rapidly developing city in China

Differences in social and physical dimensions of perceived walkability in Mexican American and non-hispanic white walking environments in Tucson, Arizona

Estratificación Social Y Uso Del Transporte Público en El Contexto De La Crisis De Seguridad en México

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