Individual- and community-level neighbor relationships and physical activity among older Japanese adults living in a metropolitan area: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis

• Main Authors: Satoshi Seino (Author), Akihiko Kitamura (Author), Mariko Nishi (Author), Yui Tomine (Author), Izumi Tanaka (Author), Yu Taniguchi (Author), Yuri Yokoyama (Author), Hidenori Amano (Author), Miki Narita (Author), Tomoko Ikeuchi (Author), Yoshinori Fujiwara (Author), Shoji Shinkai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Informal neighbor relationships (NRs) are considered a structural aspect of social relationships. Although NRs might affect physical activity (PA), no previous study has simultaneously examined compositional and contextual associations of NRs with PA. In this study, we examined w...