American Journal of Health Promotion September/October 2003 Special Issue

The September/October 2003 (Vol. 18, No. 1) issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion is devoted to health-promoting community design.

This special issue provides a fundamental overview of the relationship between community design and health and details what needs to be done to promote physical activity and improve health by changing social circumstances and environmental conditions.

Below is the table of contents, which includes all articles contained in the 2003 Volume 18, Number 1 special issue.

Introduction

• Supporting Health Through Design: Challenges and Opportunities
  Richard Killingsworth, JoAnne Earp, and Robin Moore

Conceptual Approaches

• Increasing the Health Promotive Capacity of Human Environments 
  Daniel Stokols, Joseph G. Grzywacz, Shari McMahan, and Kimari Phillips

• Opportunities for Integrating Public Health and Urban Planning Approaches to Promote Active Community Environments 
  Christine M. Hoehner, Laura K. Brennan, Ross C. Brownson, Susan L. Handy, and Richard Killingsworth

Building the Methods

• Walking and Bicycling: An Evaluation of Environmental Audit Instruments
  Anne Vernez Moudon and Chanam Lee

• Reliability and Validity of Two Instruments Designed to Assess the Walking and Bicycling Suitability of Sidewalks and Roads
  James Emery, Carolyn Crump, and Philip Bors

Building the Evidence -- U.S. Approaches

• Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity
  Reid Ewing, Tom Schmid, Richard Killingsworth, Amy Zlot, and Stephen Raudenbush

• Neighborhood Environment, Access to Places for Activity, and Leisure-time Physical Activity in a Diverse North Carolina Population
  Sara L. Huston, Kelly R. Evenson, Philip Bors, and Ziya Gizlice

• Assessing the Perceived Environment Among Minimally Active Adolescent Girls: Validity and Relations to Physical Activity Outcomes 
  Genevieve Fridlund Dunton, Margaret Schneider Jamner, and Dan Michael Cooper

• The Relationship Between Convenience of Destinations and Walking Levels in Older Women
  Wendy C. King, Jennifer S. Brach, Steven Belle, Richard Killingsworth, Mark Fenton, and Andrea M. Kriska

Building the Evidence -- International Approaches

• Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity in a Sample of Belgian Adults
  Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, James F. Sallis, and Brian E. Saelens

• Environmental and Lifestyle Factors Associated With Overweight and Obesity in Perth, Australia

  Billie Giles-Corti, Sally Macintyre, Johanna P. Clarkson, Terro Pikora, and Robert J. Donovan

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

• Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Decision-Making 
  Todd Litman

• Policy Prescriptions for Healthier Communities
  Trip Pollard

• Recreating Communities to Support Active Living: A New Role for Social Marketing
  Edward W. Maibach