Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Active Living Research supported a 2006 supplement to the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.

This special issue highlights some of the papers presented at the second annual Active Living Research conference in February 2005.

Below you can find all articles contained in the 2006 Volume 3, Supplement 1 issue.

Introduction

• The Second Active Living Research Conference: Signs of Maturity 
  M. Katherine Kraft, James F. Sallis, Anne Vernez Moudon, and Leslie S. Linton

Original Research

• Physical Activity and Changes in Health Care Costs in Late Middle Age
  Tatiana Andreyeva and Roland Sturm

• A Framework for Physical Activity Policy Research 
  Thomas L. Schmid, Michael Pratt, and Lindsay Witmer

• Environmental Justice: Obesity, Physical Activity, and Healthy Eating 
  Wendell C. Taylor, Walker S. Carlos Poston, Lovell Jones, and M. Katherine Kraft

• The Effectiveness of Urban Design and Land Use and Transport Policies and Practices to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review
  Gregory W. Heath, Ross C. Brownson, Judy Kruger, Rebecca Miles, Kenneth E. Powell, Leigh T. Ramsey, and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services

• Correlates of Walking for Transportation or Recreation Purposes
  Chanam Lee and Anne Vernez Moudon

• Operational Definitions of Walkable Neighborhood: Theoretical and Empirical Insights
  Anne Vernez Moudon, Chanam Lee, Allen D. Cheadle, Cheza Garvin, Donna Johnson, Thomas L. Schmid, Robert D. Weathers, and Lin Lin

• Community Design and Access to Recreational Facilities as Correlates of Adolescent Physical Activity and Body-Mass Index 
  Gregory J. Norman, Sandra K. Nutter, Sherry Ryan, James F. Sallis, Karen J. Calfas, and Kevin Patrick

• Proximity to School and Physical Activity Among Middle School Girls: The Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls Study 
  Deborah A. Cohen, Scott Ashwood, Molly Scott, Adrian Overton, Kelly R. Evenson, Carolyn C. Voorhees, Ariane Bedimo-Rung, and Thomas L. McKenzie

• Neighborhood Correlates of Urban Trail Use
  Greg Lindsey, Yuling Han, Jeffrey Wilson, and Jihui Yang

• Development and Reliability and Validity Testing of an Audit Tool for Trail/Path Characteristics: The Path Environment Audit Tool (PEAT)
  Philip J. Troped, Ellen K. Cromley, Maren S. Fragala, Steven J. Melly, Hope H. Hasbrouck, Steven L. Gortmaker, and Ross C. Brownson

• Development of a Direct Observation Instrument to Measure Environmental Characteristics of Parks for Physical Activity
  Ariane L. Bedimo-Rung, Jeanette Gustat, Bradley J. Tompkins, Janet Rice, and Jessica Thomson

• Measuring Physical Environments of Parks and Playgrounds: EAPRS Instrument Development and Inter-Rater Reliability
  Brian E. Saelens, Lawrence D. Frank, Christopher Auffrey, Robert C. Whitaker, Hillary L. Burdette, and Natalie Colabianchi

• System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC): Reliability and Feasibility Measures
  Thomas L. McKenzie, Deborah A. Cohen, Amber Sehgal, Stephanie Williamson, and Daniela Golinelli

• Identifying and Measuring Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability
  Reid Ewing, Susan Handy, Ross C. Brownson, Otto Clemente, and Emily Winston

• Standards for Environmental Measurement Using GIS: Toward a Protocol for Protocols
  Ann Forsyth, Kathryn H. Schmitz, Michael Oakes, Jason Zimmerman, and Joel Koepp

Commentary

• Active Living Research in Light of the TRB/IOM Report
  Susan Hanson

• Making Physical Activity Research Relevant to Policy Makers
  Barbara McCann