Activity-friendly built environments in a super-aged society, Japan: Current challenges and toward a research agenda

Mohammad Javad Koohsari*, Tomoki Nakaya, Koichiro Oka

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研究成果: Comment/debate査読

40 被引用数 (Scopus)

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There is a growing recognition of the role of built environment attributes, such as streets, shops, greenways, parks, and public transportation stations, in supporting people’s active behaviors. In particular, surrounding built environments may have an important role in supporting healthy active aging. Nevertheless, little is known about how built environments may influence active lifestyles in “super-aged societies”. More robust evidence-based research is needed to identify how where people live influences their active behaviors, and how to build beneficial space in the context of super-aged societies. This evidence will also be informative for the broader international context, where having an aging society will be the inevitable future. This commentary sought to move this research agenda forward by identifying key research issues and challenges in examining the role of built environment attributes on active behaviors in Japan, which is experiencing the longest healthy life expectancy, but rapid “super-aging”, with the highest proportion of old adults among its population in the world.

本文言語English
論文番号2054
ジャーナルInternational journal of environmental research and public health
15
9
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2018 9月 19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 汚染
  • 公衆衛生学、環境および労働衛生
  • 健康、毒物学および変異誘発

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