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[caption id="attachment_5365" align="alignleft" width="300"] Celia walking at Lake Tekapo[/caption] Celia Wade-Brown says walking 3000km through cities, towns, forests, farms and mountains started as a simple political detox after twenty years of local government. However, on the way Celia found many lessons. Some were about personal perseverance and...
What works to promote walking at the population level? A systematic review by authors Charlie Foster, Paul Kelly, Hamish Reid, Nia Roberts, Elaine Murtagh, David K. Humphreys, Jenna Panter and Karen Milton. Alison Pask reviewed this paper published in a special series of the British Journal...
How to get a nation walking: reach, retention, participant characteristics and program implications of Heart Foundation Walking, a nationwide Australian community-based walking program Authors: Kylie Ball, Gavin Abbott, Michelle Wilson, Melanie Chisholm and Shannon Sahlqvist International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity201714:161 Abstract Background Community-based walking programs represent a low-cost, accessible approach to increasing physical...
Published in the Journal of Transport and Health Authors: Caroline Shaw, Michael Keall, Hayley Guiney Abstract Objective: Active travel is seen as a way to increase net population physical activity. This paper examines whether people in New Zealand who walk, cycle or use public transport to get to their main...
Dr Caroline Shaw Physical activity is good for health. Higher levels of physical activity are associated with reduced rates of breast and colon cancer, better mental health, lower obesity rates, lower heart disease, stroke (the list goes on). This blog looks at a new study we just published...
Stanford researchers using smartphones to track the activity levels of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe made an intriguing discovery: In countries with little obesity, people mostly walked a similar amount per day. But big gaps between people who walked a lot and...
This indicator presents the percentage of household travel time by mode of transport, from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey, published by the Ministry of Transport. For this indicator, household travel excludes professional driver trips, that is, those trips done to transport goods or people...
This factsheet includes two sources of data on active transport to school. Data are firstly presented on specific transport modes used by 5–12-year-olds to get to school, from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Data are then presented on active transport (walking, cycling and other...
Urban green space interventions and health: A review of impacts and effectiveness. Full report (2017) This new World Health Organization report looks into the most effective ways to deliver urban interventions on green spaces, and how to make sure that the environmental, social and health benefits are...
