Association Between the Activity Space Exposure to Parks in Childhood and Adolescence and Cognitive Aging in Later Life.

ABSTRACT: The exposure to green space in early life may support better cognitive aging in later life. However, this exposure is usually measured using the residential location alone. This disregards the exposure to green spaces in places frequented during daily activities (i.e., the 'activity space'). Overlooking the multiple locations visited by an individual over the course of a day is likely to result in poor estimation of the environmental exposure and therefore exacerbates the contextual uncertainty. A child's activity space is influenced by factors including age, sex, and the parental perception of the neighborhood. This paper develops indices of park availability based on individuals' activity spaces (home, school, and the optimal route to school). These measures are used to examine whether p

SUBMITTER: Cherrie MPC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6406333 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature