Association of car ownership and physical activity across the spectrum of human development : Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS).

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Title
Association of car ownership and physical activity across the spectrum of human development : Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS).
Journal
Bmc Public Health
Author(s)
Shoham D.A., Dugas L.R., Bovet P., Forrester T.E., Lambert E.V., Plange-Rhule J., Schoeller D.A., Brage S., Ekelund U., Durazo-Arvizu R.A., Cooper R.S., Luke A.
ISSN
1471-2458 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1471-2458
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
15
Number
173
Pages
1-10
Language
english
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Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Variations in physical activity (PA) across nations may be driven by socioeconomic position. As national incomes increase, car ownership becomes within reach of more individuals. This report characterizes associations between car ownership and PA in African-origin populations across 5 sites at different levels of economic development and with different transportation infrastructures: US, Seychelles, Jamaica, South Africa, and Ghana.
METHODS: Twenty-five hundred adults, ages 25-45, were enrolled in the study. A total of 2,101 subjects had valid accelerometer-based PA measures (reported as average daily duration of moderate to vigorous PA, MVPA) and complete socioeconomic information. Our primary exposure of interest was whether the household owned a car. We adjusted for socioeconomic position using household income and ownership of common goods.
RESULTS: Overall, PA levels did not vary largely between sites, with highest levels in South Africa, lowest in the US. Across all sites, greater PA was consistently associated with male gender, fewer years of education, manual occupations, lower income, and owning fewer material goods. We found heterogeneity across sites in car ownership: after adjustment for confounders, car owners in the US had 24.3 fewer minutes of MVPA compared to non-car owners in the US (20.7 vs. 45.1 minutes/day of MVPA); in the non-US sites, car-owners had an average of 9.7 fewer minutes of MVPA than non-car owners (24.9 vs. 34.6 minutes/day of MVPA).
CONCLUSIONS: PA levels are similar across all study sites except Jamaica, despite very different levels of socioeconomic development. Not owning a car in the US is associated with especially high levels of MVPA. As car ownership becomes prevalent in the developing world, strategies to promote alternative forms of active transit may become important.
Keywords
Adult, African Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data, Automobiles/statistics & numerical data, Epidemiologic Studies, Exercise, Female, Ghana, Humans, Income, Jamaica, Male, Middle Aged, Ownership, Prevalence, Seychelles, Socioeconomic Factors, South Africa
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