Examining the relationship among neighborhood environment, transportation-related physical activity and health

IF 4 2区地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103634

Jiexia Xu , Jing Ma , Sui Tao , Guanpeng Dong

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Abstract

Understanding how urban environment influences residents' health behavior and health outcomes is essential to develop healthy cities. However, their relationships remain unclear and inconclusive. Based on the survey data in 2022, this study employs serial multiple mediation models to examine how subjective and objective neighborhood environment influences residents’ transportation-related physical activity and health, and further investigate the mediating role of physical activity. Our results reveal that transportation-related physical activity significantly enhances both physical and mental health. The direct and indirect connections between subjective environment and health are significant, while objective environment primarily influences health indirectly through two pathways. Objective air pollution exerts indirect effect on health through the subjective environment, whereas accessibility of subway station and road connectivity mainly influence health indirectly through promoting the participation in transportation-related physical activity, which serves as an important mediator in the environment – health relationships. These findings provide important insights for developing healthy city and promoting public health.

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研究街区环境、与交通有关的身体活动和健康之间的关系

了解城市环境如何影响居民的健康行为和健康结果，对健康城市的发展至关重要。然而，它们之间的关系仍然不清楚，也没有定论。本研究基于2022年的调查数据，采用系列多元中介模型，考察主客观邻里环境对居民交通相关体力活动与健康的影响，并进一步探讨体力活动的中介作用。我们的研究结果表明，交通相关的体力活动显著提高身心健康。主观环境与健康之间的直接和间接联系显著，而客观环境主要通过两种途径间接影响健康。客观空气污染通过主观环境间接影响健康，而地铁站可达性和道路连通性主要通过促进交通相关身体活动的参与间接影响健康，后者在环境-健康关系中起重要中介作用。研究结果对健康城市建设和促进公众健康具有重要的指导意义。

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Applied Geography GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

2.00%

发文量

134

期刊介绍： Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.