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A Novel Tool For Assessing And Summarizing The Built Environment, Gretchen L. Kroeger, Lynne C. Messer, Sharon E. Edwards, Marie Lynn Miranda Jan 2012

A Novel Tool For Assessing And Summarizing The Built Environment, Gretchen L. Kroeger, Lynne C. Messer, Sharon E. Edwards, Marie Lynn Miranda

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: A growing corpus of research focuses on assessing the quality of the local built environment and also examining the relationship between the built environment and health outcomes and indicators in communities. However, there is a lack of research presenting a highly resolved, systematic, and comprehensive spatial approach to assessing the built environment over a large geographic extent. In this paper, we contribute to the built environment literature by describing a tool used to assess the residential built environment at the tax parcel-level, as well as a methodology for summarizing the data into meaningful indices for linkages with health data. …


Supporting Omph Students And Professionals: The Case Of The Research Guide, Emily Ford, Laura Zeigen Jan 2012

Supporting Omph Students And Professionals: The Case Of The Research Guide, Emily Ford, Laura Zeigen

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster showcases the research guides supporting public health students in the Oregon Master of Public Health program.