Social inclusion and physical activity in ciclovía recreativa programs in Latin America
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Mejía Arbeláez, Carlos
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Social inclusion and physical activity in ciclovía recreativa programs in Latin America
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Ciclovia Recreativa is a program in which streets are closed off to automobiles so that people have a safe and inclusive space for recreation and for being physically active. The study aims were: (1) to compare participant's spatial trajectories in four Ciclovia Recreativa programs in Latin America (Bogota, Mexico City, Santiago de Cali, and Santiago de Chile) according to socioeconomic characteristics and urban segregation of these cities; and (2) to assess the relationship between participants' physical activity (PA) levels and sociodemographic characteristics. We harmonized data of cross-sectional studies including 3282 adults collected between 2015 and 2019. We found the highest mobility for recreation in Bogota, followed closely by Santiago de Cali. In these two cities, the maximum SES (socioeconomic status) percentile differences between the neighborhood of origin and the neighborhoods visited as part of the Ciclovia use were 33.58 (p-value < 0.001) and 30.38 (p-value < 0.001), respectively, indicating that in these two cities, participants were more likely to visit higher or lower SES neighborhoods than their average SES-of-neighborhood origin. By contrast, participants from Mexico City and Santiago de Chile were more likely to stay in geographic units similar to their average SES-of-origin, having lower overall mobility during leisure time: maximum SES percentile difference 1.55 (p-value < 0.001) and -0.91 (p-value 0.001), respectively. PA levels of participants did not differ by sex or SES. Our results suggest that Ciclovia can be a socially inclusive program in highly unequal and segregated urban environments, which provides a space for PA whilefacilitat physical proximity, exposure to new communities and environments, and interactions between different socioeconomic groups.
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Wellcome Trust initiative, "Our Planet, Our Health" 205177/Z/16/Z
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) 359065
Ministry of Health
United States Department of Health & Human Services
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA
NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) RO3 TW009061
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable (CEDEUS) (Fondef) 15110020
Universidad Iberoamericana
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 655
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