Title: Can changing the physical environment promote walking and cycling? A systematic review of what works and how.

ABSTRACT: Environmental changes aimed at encouraging walking or cycling may promote activity and improve health, but evidence suggests small or inconsistent effects in practice. Understanding how an intervention works might help explain the effects observed and provide guidance about generalisability. We therefore aimed to review the literature on the effects of this type of intervention and to understand how and why these may or may not be effective. We searched eight electronic databases for existing systematic reviews and mined these for evaluative studies of physical environmental changes and assessed changes in walking, cycling or physical activity. We then searched for related sources including quantitative or qualitative studies, policy documents or reports. We extracted information on the ev

SUBMITTER: Panter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6737987 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature