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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-7-76
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- National Prevention Research Initiative
- Alzheimer's Research Trust
- Alzheimer's Society
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health Directorate
- Department of Health
- Diabetes UK
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Food Standards Agency
- Health & Social Care Research & Development Office for Northern Ireland
- Medical Research Council
- The Stroke Association
- Welsh Assembly Government
- World Cancer Research Fund
- Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- Wellcome Trust
- ESRC [ES/G007462/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MC_UP_A540_1022, MC_U130059821, MC_EX_G0701942, MC_U106179474] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G007462/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_EX_G0701942, MC_UP_A540_1022, MC_U130059821, MC_U106179474] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background: The aim of this study was to examine the distribution of physical activity facilities by area-level deprivation in Scotland, adjusting for differences in urbanicity, and exploring differences between and within the four largest Scottish cities. Methods: We obtained a list of all recreational physical activity facilities in Scotland. These were mapped and assigned to datazones. Poisson and negative binomial regression models were used to investigate associations between the number of physical activity facilities relative to population size and quintile of area-level deprivation. Results: The results showed that prior to adjustment for urbanicity, the density of all facilities lessened with increasing deprivation from quintiles 2 to 5. After adjustment for urbanicity and local authority, the effect of deprivation remained significant but the pattern altered, with datazones in quintile 3 having the highest estimated mean density of facilities. Within-city associations were identified between the number of physical activity facilities and area-level deprivation in Aberdeen and Dundee, but not in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Conclusions: In conclusion, area-level deprivation appears to have a significant association with the density of physical activity facilities and although overall no clear pattern was observed, affluent areas had fewer publicly owned facilities than more deprived areas but a greater number of privately owned facilities.
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