Journal article
Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH): An Ecometric Assessment of Measures of the Community Environment Based on Individual Perception
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Public health research has turned towards examining upstream, community-level determinants of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Objective measures of the environment, such as those derived from direct observation, and perception-based measures by residents have both been associated with health behaviours. However, current methods are generally limited to objective measures, often derived from administrative data, and few …
Authors
Corsi DJ; Subramanian SV; McKee M; Li W; Swaminathan S; Lopez-Jaramillo P; Avezum A; Lear SA; Dagenais G; Rangarajan S
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 7, No. 9,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Publication Date
2012
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0044410
ISSN
1932-6203