Investigating the physical activity, health, wellbeing, social and environmental effects of a new urban greenway: a natural experiment (the PARC study)

• Main Authors: Ruth F. Hunter (Author), Deepti Adlakha (Author), Christopher Cardwell (Author), Margaret E. Cupples (Author), Michael Donnelly (Author), Geraint Ellis (Author), Aisling Gough (Author), George Hutchinson (Author), Therese Kearney (Author), Alberto Longo (Author), Lindsay Prior (Author), Helen McAneney (Author), Sara Ferguson (Author), Brian Johnston (Author), Michael Stevenson (Author), Frank Kee (Author), Mark A. Tully (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Evidence for the health benefits of urban green space tends to stem from small, short-term quasi-experimental or cross-sectional observational research, whilst evidence from intervention studies is sparse. The development of an urban greenway (9 km running along 3 rivers) in Nort...