Complete Issue (PDF, 4 pages, 189 KB)

Community Leaders’ Perspectives on Building Healthier Neighbourhoods in Urban Settings (PDF, 2 pages, 151 KB)
Marianne I. Clark, MA, Doctoral Student, Sedentary Living Lab; Tanya R. Berry, PhD, Assistant Professor; John C. Spence, PhD, Associate Professor and Director Sedentary Living Lab: Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Canada

This article highlights research in Edmonton, Alberta that used key stakeholder perspectives to examine factors that promote or prevent the development of neighbourhoods in urban areas where walking, being active, and buying healthy, affordable food are easy.

The study featured here is part of a larger research project, “A longitudinal examination of the relationship between the built environment, physical activity, and social factors within the Capital Health Region of Alberta,” a team grant in the area of the built environment, obesity and health, funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Using Motivational Interviewing to Encourage People with Diabetes to Increase Physical Activity (PDF, 2 pages, 71 KB)
Marni Armstrong, BSc, ACSM Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist®, and Ron Sigal, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine, Kinesiology, Cardiac Sciences, and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

This article explores the importance of exercise for people living with diabetes and examines how motivational interviewing may help boost motivation and increase physical activity levels for some people.

References (PDF, 1 page, 151 KB)

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