The Study on Spatial Elements of Health-Supportive Environment in Residential Streets Promoting Residents' Walking Trips.

Shaohua Tan,Jinsu Yang,Fengxiao Cao

doi:10.3390/ijerph17145198

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145198

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Residents’ walking trips are a kind of natural motion that promotes health and wellbeing by modifying individual behavior. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the major influence of the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment on residents’ walking trips. This study analyzes residents’ walking trips’ elements based on the spatiotemporal characteristics of walking trips, as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets based on residential health needs. To obtain the spatial elements that promote residents’ walking trips and to build an ordered logistic regression model, two methods—a correlation analysis and a logistic regression analysis—were applied to analyze the elements of residents’ walking trips as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets by means of SPSS software, using on-site survey results of ten residential streets and 2738 pieces of research data. The research showed that the nine kinds of spatial elements that significantly affect residents’ walking trips are density of pedestrian access, density of bus routes, near-line rate of roadside buildings, average pedestrian access distance, square area within a 500 m walking distance, distance to the nearest garden, green shade ratio, density of street intersections, and the mixed proportion of differently aged residential buildings. In order to construct a spatial environment that promotes walking trips, it is necessary to improve the convenience of residents’ walking trips, to increase the safety of roadside buildings and pedestrian access, to expand the comfort of “getting out to the nature”, and to enrich the diversity of different architectural styles and street density.

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Physical activity (PA) is a kind of generally recognized protective factor
This paper mainly studies the influence of spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets on residents’ walking trips
The conclusions are as follows: safety is the basis of walking trips; this has an impact on the frequency of necessary walking trips, the duration of necessary walking trips, the frequency of triggered walking trips and the duration of triggered walking trips

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Physical activity (PA) is a kind of generally recognized protective factor. 31.1% of the world’s adults cannot reach the standard level of physical activity. The China National Health and Planning Commission (CNHPC) found that the regular exercise rate of adults is only 18.7% in. Many studies have shown that physical inactivity (PI) has a substantial influence on obesity, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes, among others. It has become the most serious challenge of global public health in the 21st century [3,4,5,6,7]. The question of how to scientifically and reasonably intervene and improve the physical activity of residents is important for improving the physical health of the general population; it is of particular importance for the “Healthy China”

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