Evaluating the impact of improvements in urban green space on older adults' physical activity and wellbeing: protocol for a natural experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Creating or improving urban green space has the potential to be an effective, sustainable and far-reaching way to increase physical activity and improve other aspects of wellbeing in the population. However, there is a dearth of well-conducted natural experimental studies examining the causal effect of changing urban green space on physical activity and wellbeing. This is especially true in older adults and in the United Kingdom. This paper describes a natural experimental study to evaluate the effect of four small-scale urban street greening interventions on older adults' physical activity and wellbeing over a 1-year period, relative to eight matched comparison sites. All sites are located in deprived urban neighbourhoods in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Method

SUBMITTER: Benton JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062989 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature