https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4196-2439
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ABSTRACT
This study analysed the association between park access and physical activity in an urban context by extracting tweets from the social media platform Twitter. The results show that areas within a 0.5-mile distance to a park correlate with more physical activity than areas farther than that. Park type might be an essential mediator for the correlation between park size and physical activity. This study suggests that geolocated Twitter data are a viable source of information for researchers inquiring about factors related to urban open space that can contribute to public health.
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Funding
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Awards # SES-1823633 and # CMMI-1541136), the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Multistate Research Project #PEN04623 (Accession #1013257), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Award # P2C HD041025).