Pliakas, T;
Hawkesworth, S;
Silverwood, RJ;
Nanchahal, K;
Grundy, C;
Armstrong, B;
Casas, JP;
... Lock, K; + view all
(2017)
Optimising measurement of health-related characteristics of the built environment: Comparing data collected by foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and routine secondary data sources.
Health & Place
, 43
pp. 75-84.
10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.001.
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Abstract
The role of the neighbourhood environment in influencing health behaviours continues to be an important topic in public health research and policy. Foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and secondary data sources are widespread data collection methods used to objectively measure the built environment in environment-health association studies. We compared these three methods using data collected in a nationally representative epidemiological study in 17 British towns to inform future development of research tools. There was good agreement between foot-based and virtual audit tools. Foot based audits were superior for fine detail features. Secondary data sources measured very different aspects of the local environment that could be used to derive a range of environmental measures if validated properly. Future built environment research should design studies a priori using multiple approaches and varied data sources in order to best capture features that operate on different health behaviours at varying spatial scales.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Optimising measurement of health-related characteristics of the built environment: Comparing data collected by foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and routine secondary data sources |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.001 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Built environment, Research design, Environment measurement, Health, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION-SYSTEMS, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, NEIGHBORHOOD ENVIRONMENT, DIETARY BEHAVIORS, FIELD VALIDATION, OBESITY, RELIABILITY, COMMUNITIES, INSTRUMENT, ACCURACY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1533958 |
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