APA 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Design, Hashish, Environmental Protection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2111
• Professor: Tanya Halsall

Document Summary

Week 4 ecological models & multi-level interventions. Re-iterates the interactional influence between people and places and emphasizes the reciprocal influence: presence within environmental realm, role in influencing their surrounding, social influences within places. As such, both factors must be considered. Suggests that constructs from different theories strongly associated with pa should be combined within a new model. Recommends that interventions target specific populations: e. g. Market segmentation by attitude toward pa and pa behaviour. Relationship between active transport and environmental health. Quality of destinations associated with pa behaviour. Recommendation strategies: mass media, social programs, programs to increase use of recreational facilities, advocacy campaigns, supportive infrastructure, policy that promotes supportive environments and incentives/disincentives, public open space designed for multiple use, workforce development, research evaluation. Increase opportunities for incidental/utilitarian pa: use traffic calming schemes to get people to walk in neighbourhoods. Invest in public transit to get people out of the cars.