"Active Living" Related to the Rural-Urban Continuum: A Time-Use Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Millward, Hugh; Spinney, Jamie
Titel	"Active Living" Related to the Rural-Urban Continuum: A Time-Use Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Health, 27 (2011) 2, S.141-150 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-765X
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-0361.2010.00328.x
Schlagwörter	Physical Activities; Physical Activity Level; Urban Areas; Suburbs; Foreign Countries; Rural Areas; Time Management; Leisure Time; Working Hours; Transportation; Housework; Classification; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich; Ausland; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Zeitmanagement; Freizeit; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Verkehrswesen; Hausarbeit; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Kanada
Abstract	Purpose: This paper assesses the degree to which "active living" varies along the rural-urban continuum, within the county-sized regional municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Methods: Time-diary data from the Halifax Space-Time Activity Research project were used to compute daily participation rates (PRs) and time durations, at various physical effort levels, in the 4 activity domains of leisure, active transportation (AT), chores, and occupation. Geographic zones were based on the rural-urban fringe concept: the 4 zones are the Inner City (IC), Suburbs, Inner Commuter Belt (ICB), and Outer Commuter Belt (OCB). The Compendium of Physical Activities was employed to classify activity episodes into 5 effort levels. Light through maximum effort levels indicate "healthy" activities, while moderate through maximum levels indicate "aerobic" activities. Two threshold levels of "active living" were defined and calculated. Findings: Mann-Whitney tests show that significant interzonal differences in activity-level durations exist for all domains. The IC contrasts strongly with the suburbs (more AT and active leisure, but less occupational activity), and the suburbs with the ICB, but there are fewer significant differences between the ICB and OCB. The percentage of respondents meeting "maintenance" and "enhanced" thresholds of active living is significantly higher in the OCB, and there is also significant urban-rural variation by sociodemographic characteristics. Conclusions: Position along the rural-urban continuum is significantly related to PRs and mean durations for levels of physical activity, and to the proportion of respondents meeting threshold levels of active living. (As Provided).
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