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Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China
The rapid decline in young children's active commutes to and from school has prompted investigations into ways to raise activity levels. The period after school is recognized as very important in the daily activity regime of primary school children. In this study, we examine the relative effect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524311/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28752024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.06.012 |
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author | Zacharias, John Zhen, Bai Han, Xili Huang, Yunshi |
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description | The rapid decline in young children's active commutes to and from school has prompted investigations into ways to raise activity levels. The period after school is recognized as very important in the daily activity regime of primary school children. In this study, we examine the relative effects of local environmental factors and socio-economic status on children's after-school commute mode choice. Environmental factors are pedestrian priority streets, street intersection density, motorways, shops, and play spaces. Property values are used as a proxy for income. Twenty-four school districts are selected using intersection density and motorway length as criteria. All children's exit behaviors were film-recorded on October weekdays and extracted as four choices–alone, in a group of children, on foot with a parent or guardian, on e-bike driven by an adult. A multinomial logistic regression reveals that gated communities, higher priced housing, motorways and bus stops are associated with children accompanied by adults. The presence of pedestrian streets is associated with children travelling alone and in groups. Greater travel distance is also associated with parents accompanying children on foot or on e-bike. The amount of play space is associated with children leaving school in groups. Overall, social and environmental factors are influential in the independent travel of primary school children after the school day ends in south China. |
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spelling | pubmed-55243112017-07-27 Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China Zacharias, John Zhen, Bai Han, Xili Huang, Yunshi Prev Med Rep Regular Article The rapid decline in young children's active commutes to and from school has prompted investigations into ways to raise activity levels. The period after school is recognized as very important in the daily activity regime of primary school children. In this study, we examine the relative effects of local environmental factors and socio-economic status on children's after-school commute mode choice. Environmental factors are pedestrian priority streets, street intersection density, motorways, shops, and play spaces. Property values are used as a proxy for income. Twenty-four school districts are selected using intersection density and motorway length as criteria. All children's exit behaviors were film-recorded on October weekdays and extracted as four choices–alone, in a group of children, on foot with a parent or guardian, on e-bike driven by an adult. A multinomial logistic regression reveals that gated communities, higher priced housing, motorways and bus stops are associated with children accompanied by adults. The presence of pedestrian streets is associated with children travelling alone and in groups. Greater travel distance is also associated with parents accompanying children on foot or on e-bike. The amount of play space is associated with children leaving school in groups. Overall, social and environmental factors are influential in the independent travel of primary school children after the school day ends in south China. Elsevier 2017-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5524311/ /pubmed/28752024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.06.012 Text en © 2017 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Zacharias, John Zhen, Bai Han, Xili Huang, Yunshi Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title | Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title_full | Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title_fullStr | Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title_short | Local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in China |
title_sort | local environment and social factors in primary school children's afterschool commute in china |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524311/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28752024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.06.012 |
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