@article{ref1,
title="Does the effect of walkable built environments vary by neighbourhood socioeconomic status?",
journal="Preventive medicine",
year="2015",
author="Steinmetz-Wood, Madeleine and Kestens, Yan",
volume="81",
number="",
pages="262-267",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine socioeconomic status as a moderator of the relationship between the built environment and active transportation such as walking or cycling using measures of built environment exposure derived from individuals transport trips. <br><br>METHODS: The 2008 Montreal Origin-destination (OD) survey provided origin destination coordinates for a sample of 156,700 participants. We selected participants from this survey that had travelled within the census metropolitan area of Montreal the day preceding the interview, and that were between 18-65 years of age. Measures of connectivity, land-use mix, and density of business and services were collected using 400-meter buffers of the trip routes. Logistic regression was used to model the relationship between built environment variables and active transportation.. <br><br>RESULTS: Trip routes in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quartile of density of business and services or connectivity translated into greater odds of taking AT (compared to a trip in the lowest quartile). Trip routes in the 2nd, 3rd (,) and 4th quartile of land-use mix translated into lower odds of taking AT. Trips in the highest quartiles of connectivity and density of business and services were found to have a weaker association with active transportation if the individual undergoing the trip was from a low SES neighbourhood. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that previous studies finding no effect modification may have been due to the limitation of measurements of exposures to the residential neighbourhood.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-7435",
doi="10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.09.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.09.008"
}