4239.0 Changing the Playing Field: Built Environment and Policy Initiatives to Promote Physical Activity

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Organizer:
Jenn A. Leiferman, PhD
Moderator:
Jay Maddock, PhD

12:30pm
Increasing access to physical activity through policy and built environment changes
Adam B. Becker, PhD, MPH, Miguel Morales, Sarah Welch, MPH, Michael Lange, BA and Michael Alvino
12:45pm
Neighborhood built environment and leisure-time and transportation-related walking among older U.S. women
Philip J. Troped, PhD, Heather Starnes, MA, Kosuke Tamura, MS, MA, Eran Ben-Joseph, PhD, Ellen Cromley, PhD, Robin Puett, PhD, Steven Melly, MS, Peter James, MHS and Francine Laden, ScD
1:00pm
Increasing Access to Physical Activity Options in Health Disparity Areas in San Antonio Parks
Mary Thomas, MPH, Jeremy Beer, MPH and Maggie Thompson, MS
  
1:15pm
Brooklyn Active Transportation Community Planning Initiative: Engaging residents in low-income urban neighborhoods to improve the built environment and increase physical activity
Kimberly Bylander, MPH, Sarah Timmins-DeGregory, MPH, Nupur Chaudhury, MPH, MUP, Philip Noyes, MPH, MA and K. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Physical Activity

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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