Healthy mobile check-ins study: Smartphone based research into people, place, and physical activity

Considerable research has demonstrated the importance of place in influencing individual and community health. Health factors associated with place include access to public transport, recreational facilities, walkability, safety, availability and price of doctors and other health providers, access to fresh fruit and vegetables, food prices, green spaces and gyms. Differences are present across suburbs throughout cities. Suburbs with larger populations of people with lower socioeconomic position have been found to have poorer general health markers, with higher rates of smoking, lower rates of physical activity, and higher rates of obesity..