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Coen SE. Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health Place. 2017;53:264-267doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005.
Coen, S. E. (2018). Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health & place, 53264-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005
Coen, Stephanie E. "Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens." Health & place vol. 53 (2018): 264-267. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005
Coen SE. Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health Place. 2018 Sep;53:264-267. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005. Epub 2017 Nov 15. PMID: 29150314.
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Health Place. 2018 Sep;53:264-267. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005. Epub 2017 Nov 15.

Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens.

Health & place

Stephanie E Coen

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  1. Department of Geography, Social Science Centre, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29150314 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005

Abstract

In this commentary, I respond to the special section in Health & Place (vol. 46) on "Exercise and environment: new qualitative work to link popular practice and public health" edited by Hitchings and Latham. I argue that if qualitative research is to effectively inform public health policy and practice it cannot ignore the fact that physical activity participation is inequitable. Without building in a critical equity lens, geographers risk perpetuating the "inequality paradox"-that is, the potential for population health interventions to inadvertently exacerbate health inequalities. Related to this, I challenge the editors' assumption that geographers' critiques of public health approaches to physical activity and our applied efforts to foster physical activity participation are mutually exclusive endeavours. Rather, I argue they are mutually necessary within a social justice agenda. Finally, I close this commentary by offering ways forward for qualitative research on exercise and environment to connect with public health agendas and inform interventions.

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