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1 Research Results on Social Environmental Factors related to Physical Activity Active Living Research www.activelivingresearch.org A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Any of the slides contained in this set are available for public use. If you have comments or questions about a particular slide, please contact Debbie Lou at dlou@projects.sdsu.edudlou@projects.sdsu.edu

2 Lumeng JC, Appugliese D, Cabral HJ, Bradley RH, Zuckerman B. Neighborhood safety and overweight status in children. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2006; 160(1):25-31. 17% of children were obese 4% of children were obese A study of 768 children in urban and rural communities found first-grade children are less likely to be obese if their parents perceive their neighborhoods to be safe.

3 Bennett G, McNeill L, et al. Safe to walk? Neighborhood safety and physical activity among public housing residents. PLoS Medicine 2007; 4(10):e306 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040306. A study of 1,180 predominantly racial and ethnic minority residents of Boston low-income housing projects found women who perceived their neighborhoods as safe walked more than women who perceived their neighborhoods as unsafe.


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