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Access to Health-Promoting Facilities and Amenities

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the existing literature on the importance of the built environment to obesity and examines how local facilities, such as physical activity amenities, are distributed across different sorts of neighbourhoods. The issue of access to these facilities using different forms of transport (walking, cycling, bus or car) is explored using data from a Scotland wide study.

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  1. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, Scotland, UK

    Anne Ellaway & Karen Lamb

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK

    Neil Ferguson

  3. UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, 296, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK

    David Ogilvie

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Ellaway, A., Ferguson, N., Lamb, K., Ogilvie, D. (2013). Access to Health-Promoting Facilities and Amenities. In: Stock, C., Ellaway, A. (eds) Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6672-7_7

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