Understanding the relationship between built environment features and physical activity in the Caribbean: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transforming the urban infrastructure to become safe, inclusive and sustainable remains a challenge in most developing settings. The Caribbean has high burdens of physical inactivity and non-communicable diseases. Therefore, understanding the role of the built environment (BE) in modifying individual activity is important for informing the design of community interventions to improve levels of physical activity (PA). Anecdotally, there is limited evidence on the BE in the Caribbean, however evidence from other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and from Latin America (LA) may offer useful information given their similar urbanization profiles and shared geo-collaborative histories.

Objective

Our review identifies and characterizes individual features of the BE a

SUBMITTER: Rocke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953899 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature