Pedestrian-friendly town planning promotes physical movement and prevents predominance

(openPR) - pedestrian-friendly arranged quarters are extremely health favorable: Citizens, who have the luck or money, in order in residential areas with parks and restaurants, with business and walking ways to live, are due to this infrastructure also physically more in motion and are more rarely affected by predominance. Now three independently accomplished studies from different regions of the USA showed this.

A study of the University OF Washington examined with over 900 seniors (age 65-93) from the state Washington in the northwest of the USA on the one hand on the basis indication of the older citizens, when and how often these move physically, for buying or also with walks. These data became then compared to data the respective residential area, whereby indicators were consulted like number of the business and restaurants, intensity of the traffic, expansion of the blocks of flats, pedestrian and cycle tracks. The residential districts were then divided according to their “pedestrian friendliness” into different groups. That the ratio for physical movement varied with the older citizens between 30 and 600 per cent, depending on, strongly the infrastructure of the accomodation pointed itself to going in-loaded or of it holds.

Further information too these and the remaining studies is to be reread here:
http://www.forum-gesundheitspolitik.de/dossier/index501.htm

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