The challenges of evaluating environmental interventions to increase population levels of physical activity: the case of the UK National Cycle Network
Open Access
- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 57 (2), 96-101
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.2.96
Abstract
In this paper we will discuss the potential role of environmental strategies to increase population levels of cycling and walking; describe one such UK intervention—the UK National Cycle Network; discuss the challenges of evaluating this project and suggest appropriate ways of assessing its effect on population levels of physical activity.Keywords
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