Towards a more active society? Searching for evidence in the living laboratory
1. David Ogilvie
Towards a more active society?
Searching for evidence in the living laboratory
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2. This is a slightly modified version of the slideset that
accompanied a keynote lecture given at the International
Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Rio de
Janeiro on 9 April 2014 (www.icpaph2014.com).
The slides were designed to illustrate the lecture, not to stand
as a document in their own right.To follow the story you will
need to play detective, following the clues in the slides that
will lead you to the papers where the ideas are developed
further. A fully hyperlinked reference list is available at
www.tinyurl.com/living-laboratory.
5. For too long the focus has been
on advising individuals to take
an active approach to life.
Das and Horton, Lancet 2012
6. The greatest potential
to increase population-level
physical activity might be
through creation of supportive
policies in other sectors.
Pratt et al., Lancet 2012
17. 0 10 20 30
Switzerland
Canada
Australia
Ireland
United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Germany
Sweden
Netherlands
China
Denmark
Adapted from Hallal et al., Lancet 2012b
Cycling to work
Prevalence (%)
18. 2. Transport policies and
systems that prioritise walking,
cycling and public transport.
www.globalpa.org.uk
19. Tell us something we don't
already know or do!
Allender et al., J Public Health Policy 2009
20. Most studies fall far short
of the ideal research design
for evaluating interventions…
As a result, these studies
do not adequately address
the direction of causality.
Pucher et al., Prev Med 2010
22. In general, there is a degree of
doubt, caution and modesty,
which, in all kinds of scrutiny
and decision, ought forever
to accompany a just reasoner.
Hume, 1748
23. Good intentions and received
wisdom are not enough.
Macintyre and Petticrew, J Epidemiol Community Health 2000
Sally Macintyre Mark Petticrew
30. There has been far too little
consideration of the social and
physical environments that
enable such activity to be taken.
Das and Horton, Lancet 2012
34. The idea of a systematic review
is a nonsense, and the sooner
those advocates of it are tried
at the International Court
of Human Rights at the Hague
(or worse still, sent for
counseling), the better.
Rees, AmJ Dermatol 2002
52. It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better.
RooseveltT, Paris 1910 (slightly edited)
53. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena;
who errs, who comes short
again and again; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds.
RooseveltT, Paris 1910 (slightly edited)
58. Evaluating the impact of large-
scale public health programs
is difficult.
Victora et al., AmJ Public Health 2004
59. Studies with plausibility designs
are often the only feasible option
and may provide valid evidence
of impact.
Victora et al., AmJ Public Health 2004
63. Cycling to workPrevalence(%,95%CI)
02468
1981 1991 2001
Matched
comparison
Intervention
towns
National
comparison
Unfunded
comparison
Intervention
period
Goodman et al., SocSci Med 2013
2011
64. Cycling to work
Difference-in-differences 0.69 (0.60, 0.77)
Ratio-of-ratios 1.09 (1.06, 1.11)
Prevalence(%,95%CI)
02468
1981 1991 2001
Matched
comparison
Intervention
towns
National
comparison
Unfunded
comparison
Intervention
period
Goodman et al., SocSci Med 2013
2011
65. 0-4 -2 2 4
I2 = 98% 0.23 (-0.31, 0.81)
Town by town
Goodman et al., SocSci Med 2013
Percentage point increase
67. Impact of COnstructing Non-motorised Networks
and Evaluating Changes in Travel
FUNDED BY PARTNERS
Brand et al., Appl Energy 2013
Bird et al., Health Psychol 2013
Adams et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2013
Goodman et al., Prev Med 2013
Song et al., Environ Plann A 2013
Goodman et al., Am J Public Health in press
Ogilvie et al., Am J Public Health 2011
Sahlqvist et al., BMC Med Res Methodol 2011
Powell et al., Built Environ 2011
Ogilvie et al., BMJ Open 2012
Sahlqvist et al., Prev Med 2012
Goodman et al., Environ Health 2012
Sahlqvist et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2013
68. Video of a Connect2 intervention study site
www.iconnect.ac.uk/NAI8PW757431
Credit: Andre Neves, University of Oxford
74. -200
-100
0
100
200
Active travel and physical activity
Sahlqvist et al., IntJ Behav Nutr Phys Act 2013
Active travel
increased
Active travel
decreased
Recreational
PA
Overall
PA
Recreational
PA
Overall
PA
Change(min·wk-1,95%CI)
Adjusted linear regression coefficients. N=1628
76. Health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided
Busway: the Commuting and Health in Cambridge
study
Ogilvie et al, BMC Public Health 2010
Panter et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2011
Goodman et al., Soc Sci Med 2012
Guell et al., Soc Sci Med 2012
Jones & Ogilvie, Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2012
Panter et al., PLoS ONE 2012
Yang et al., Prev Med 2012
Yang et al., BMC Public Health 2012
Carse et al., J Transport Geogr 2013
Panter et al., Prev Med 2013a
Guell et al., BMC Public Health 2013
Dalton et al., PLoS ONE 2013
Humphreys et al., Prev Med 2013
Jones et al., PLoS ONE 2013
Panter et al., Prev Med 2013b
Guell & Ogilvie, Qual Res 2013
77.
78. Commuting is always the car.
Wouldn’t be anything else in reality,
purely because of convenience
and time…
One female commuter quoted in Guell et al., SocSci Med 2012
flickr.com/PaulWhiltehouse
79. Same female commuter quoted in Guell et al., SocSci Med 2012
flickr.com/LutleyPrimarySchool
… It’s usually the bike,
the bike’s quicker.
82. Panter et al., Prev Med 2013b
1
10
100
Oddsratio(95%CI)
Convenient
cycle routes
No free parking
at work
4.7
22.6
Adjusted odds ratios
Predictors of switching from the car
83. Targeting evidence-based
mediators in interventions
is a crucial step in improvement
of the effectiveness of
physical activity interventions.
Bauman et al., Lancet 2012
85. Effects of Connect2
Panter andOgilvie, ICPAPH 2014
Increase in
time spent
walking and cycling
Increase in perceived
supportiveness of
environment
Use
of C2
Proximity
to C2
86. Effects of Connect2
Increase in
time spent
walking and cycling
Increase in perceived
supportiveness of
environment
Use
of C2
Proximity
to C2
Panter andOgilvie, ICPAPH 2014
88. Use of Connect2
Goodman et al., Prev Med 2013Percentage of users who reported each type of use at two-year follow-up
Transport
Recreation
0
100
Cycling
Walking
18
32
39
85
Walking
Transport
Cycling
Recreation
89.
90. -10
0
10
20
30
Effects of Connect2
One year Two years
Walking and
cycling
Overall
PA
Walking and
cycling
Overall
PA
4.6 4.3
15.3
12.5
Adjusted linear regression coefficients per kilometre of proximity
Change(min·wk-1,95%CI)
N=1796
91. -10
0
10
20
30
Effects of Connect2
One year Two years
Walking and
cycling
Overall
PA
Walking and
cycling
Overall
PA
4.6 4.3
15.3
12.5
Adjusted linear regression coefficients per kilometre of proximity
Change(min·wk-1,95%CI)
N=1796
Two years
N=1465
Goodman et al., AmJ Public Health in press
94. Panter andOgilvie, ICPAPH 2014
0.1
1
10
Oddsratio(95%CI)
More than 2km
from Connect2
Up to 2km
from Connect2
2.6
Adjusted odds ratio
Uptake of walking
95. Alice Dalton
Amy Nimegeer
Andrew Carse
Andrew Dymond
Andy Jones
Anna Goodman
Ashley Cooper
Calum Mattocks
Caroline Jones
Cheryl Chapman
Christian Brand
Cornelia Guell
David Humphreys
Emma Adams
Emma Bird
Eva Heinen
Fiona Bull
Fiona Crawford
Fiona Whittle
Harry Rutter
Hilary Thomson
Jane Powell
Jenna Panter
Joanna Kesten
John Preston
Karen Ghali
Lee Smith
Lin Yang
Louise Foley
Oliver Mytton
Richard Mitchell
Richard Prins
Roger Mackett
Shannon Sahlqvist
Shona Hilton
Silvia Costa
Tim Jones
Wing Wong
Yena Song
… and many more
And with particular credit to the lead authors
of the analyses featured in this presentation…
With thanks to…
103. —
Health impacts of a new urban motorway:
the M74 study
Ogilvie et al., Am J Prev Med 2006
Ogilvie et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2008a
Ogilvie et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2008b
Ogilvie et al., Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2010
104. I just wouldn't like to think that I
would walk up there and this big
motorway thundering over my head
[...] With the thunder of that traffic,
it's a bit scary.
All this traffic going on top of you
[...] it's just big, cold, stark,
concrete... it's just only built for
cars.You know?
Local female residents quoted in Ogilvie et al., IntJ Behav Nutr Phys Act 2010
114. For physical activity,
a strong case can be made
that the science of how
to change individual behaviours
has overshadowed
efforts to understand
true population-level change.
Kohl et al., Lancet 2012
115. Enrique Peñalosa quoted in Montgomery, 2013
We need to walk,
just as birds need to fly..
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116. The PhysicalActivity and Public Health research programme is supported by the
Medical Research Council, and the research described in this talk was carried out as part
of the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), a UKCRC Public Health Research
Centre of Excellence funded by the British Heart Foundation, Economic and Social
Research Council, Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research
(NIHR) and WellcomeTrust under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration.
www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/physical-activity-and-public-health
The iConnect study was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council.The Commuting and Health in Cambridge and M74 studies are funded by the
NIHR Public Health Research programme. Anna Goodman and Jenna Panter are
supported by NIHR Postdoctoral Fellowships.The Department forTransport provided
information on the Cycling DemonstrationTowns and CyclingCities andTowns
programmes.
The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NHS, the
NIHR or the Department of Health.