Illinois Prevention Research Center | University of Illinois at Chicago | Building Healthier Communities Together

Illinois Prevention Research Center | University of Illinois at Chicago | Building Healthier Communities Together

PODCASTCommunities Working to Increase Physical Activity

Listen to a podcast by a researcher with the CDC-funded University of Illinois, Chicago Prevention Research Center on how a Chicago project involved communities to increase play and physical activity by renovating parks. Their study showed a 61% increase in park use and a 37% increase in physical activity after the renovation of a group of parks.

Listen (4:20) or read the transcript PODCAST

  Resources

• About CDC’s Prevention Research Center Program
• Communities Working to Increase Physical Activity
• About the University of Illinois, Chicago PRC
• Publication: If You Build It Will They Come? Does Involving Community Groups in Playground Renovations Affect Park Utilization and Physical Activity?