What works to promote walking at the population level? A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Interventions to promote walking have focused on individual or group-based approaches, often via the randomised controlled trial design. Walking can also be promoted using population health approaches. We systematically reviewed the effectiveness of population approaches to promote walking among individuals and populations.

Design

A systematic review.

Data sources

10 electronic databases searched from January 1990 to March 2017.

Eligibility criteria

Eligibility criteria include pre-experimental and postexperimental studies of the effects of population interventions to change walking, and the effects must have been compared with a 'no intervention', or comparison group/area/population, or variation in exposure; duration of ≥12 months of follow up; part

SUBMITTER: Foster C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258897 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature