Shaping Pathways to Child Health: A Systematic Review of Street-Scale Interventions in City Streets.

ABSTRACT: Street-level built environment factors, for example, walking infrastructure, building density, availability of public transport, and proliferation of fast-food outlets can impact on health by influencing our ability to engage in healthy behaviour. Unhealthy environments are often clustered in deprived areas, thus interventions to improve the built environments may improve health and reduce inequalities. The aim of this review was to identify whether street-level built environment interventions can improve children's health in high income countries. A secondary aim was to describe key built environment elements targeted in interventions and research gaps. A systematic review of published literature was conducted by a multi-disciplinary team. Ten intervention papers were included. Physical a

SUBMITTER: Ortegon-Sanchez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9105466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature