Karen Witten

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Karen Witten is affiliated with the following schools: Massey University, University of Auckland

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Karen Witten's Degrees

PhD Public Health University of Auckland
Masters Public Health University of Auckland
Bachelors Biological Sciences University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Karen Witten is a New Zealand public health academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career Witten's 2005 PhD geography thesis from the University of Auckland concerned the six diverse suburban localities in Auckland and the implications of living there for parents raising children and the impacts on health and health inequality. The title of her thesis was Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland.

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Systematic literature review of built environment effects on physical activity and active transport – an update and new findings on health equity (2017) (456)
GIS based destination accessibility via public transit and walking in Auckland, New Zealand (2012) (311)
Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study. (2007) (304)
Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey (1999) (298)
Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility (2006) (264)
Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources? (2007) (237)
Household risk factors for malaria among children in the Ethiopian highlands. (2000) (214)
The Societal Costs and Benefits of Commuter Bicycling: Simulating the Effects of Specific Policies Using System Dynamics Modeling (2014) (201)
The contextual effects of neighbourhood access to supermarkets and convenience stores on individual fruit and vegetable consumption (2008) (199)
Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: a national study. (2008) (194)
Can Virtual Streetscape Audits Reliably Replace Physical Streetscape Audits? (2010) (193)
The Quality of Urban Environments: Mapping Variation in Access to Community Resources (2003) (175)
Neighborhood Built Environment and Transport and Leisure Physical Activity: Findings Using Objective Exposure and Outcome Measures in New Zealand (2012) (154)
Can source reduction of mosquito larval habitat reduce malaria transmission in Tigray, Ethiopia? (2005) (141)
A national study of the association between neighbourhood access to fast-food outlets and the diet and weight of local residents. (2009) (135)
Is neighborhood access to health care provision associated with individual-level utilization and satisfaction? (2008) (123)
New Zealand parents' understandings of the intergenerational decline in children's independent outdoor play and active travel (2013) (117)
The impacts of a school closure on neighbourhood social cohesion: narratives from Invercargill, New Zealand. (2001) (110)
Neighbourhood Destination Accessibility Index: A GIS Tool for Measuring Infrastructure Support for Neighbourhood Physical Activity (2011) (110)
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies (2007) (107)
‘The status quo is not an option’: Community impacts of school closure in South Taranaki, New Zealand (2009) (103)
Professional assistance during birth and maternal mortality in two Indonesian districts. (2009) (92)
Built environment associates of active school travel in New Zealand children and youth: A systematic meta-analysis using individual participant data (2018) (91)
Neighbourhood Provision of Food and Alcohol Retailing and Social Deprivation in Urban New Zealand (2008) (88)
Understanding the Relationship between Activity and Neighbourhoods (URBAN) Study: research design and methodology (2009) (88)
Kids in the City: Children's Use and Experiences of Urban Neighbourhoods in Auckland, New Zealand (2015) (88)
Community participation in malaria control in Tigray region Ethiopia. (1996) (86)
Kids in the city study: research design and methodology (2011) (83)
Seasonal and locational variations in children's play: implications for wellbeing. (2013) (80)
Associations between the neighbourhood built environment and out of school physical activity and active travel: An examination from the Kids in the City study. (2015) (73)
Educational Restructuring from a Community Viewpoint: A Case Study of School Closure from Invercargill, New Zealand (2003) (66)
Environmental and socio-demographic associates of children’s active transport to school: a cross-sectional investigation from the URBAN Study (2014) (65)
Linking GPS and travel diary data using sequence alignment in a study of children's independent mobility (2011) (62)
Regional and Urban–Rural Variations in the Association of Neighbourhood Deprivation with Community Resource Access: A National Study (2008) (61)
The community-based malaria control programme in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. A review of programme set-up, activities, outcomes and impact. (2000) (60)
Social and built‐environment factors related to children's independent mobility: The importance of neighbourhood cohesion and connectedness (2017) (59)
Housing Intensification in Auckland, New Zealand: Implications for Children and Families (2011) (59)
Associations of children's active school travel with perceptions of the physical environment and characteristics of the social environment: A systematic review (2018) (54)
The place of neighbourhood in social cohesion: insights from massey, West Auckland (2003) (50)
Assessment of direct and indirect associations between children active school travel and environmental, household and child factors using structural equation modelling (2019) (47)
Increasing active travel: results of a quasi-experimental study of an intervention to encourage walking and cycling (2015) (46)
Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic (2010) (46)
Examining public open spaces by neighborhood-level walkability and deprivation. (2010) (46)
A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Active Travel Intervention with Health and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefits (2018) (46)
Association of neighbourhood residence and preferences with the built environment, work-related travel behaviours, and health implications for employed adults: Findings from the URBAN study (2012) (45)
Malaria, schistosomiasis, and intestinal helminths in relation to microdams in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. (1998) (45)
‘This is like my comfort zone’: Senses of place and belonging within Oruāmo/Beachhaven, New Zealand (2006) (43)
Neighbourhoods and health: A review of the New Zealand literature (2009) (42)
The place of schools in parents’ community belonging (2007) (40)
Assessing neighbourhood destination access for children: development of the NDAI-C audit tool (2015) (38)
How Do Neighbourhood Definitions Influence the Associations between Built Environment and Physical Activity? (2019) (38)
Neighbourhoods for Active Kids: study protocol for a cross-sectional examination of neighbourhood features and children's physical activity, active travel, independent mobility and body size (2016) (38)
Neighbourhood matters: perceptions of neighbourhood cohesiveness and associations with alcohol, cannabis and tobacco use. (2012) (34)
Transport related social exclusion in New Zealand: Evidence and challenges (2009) (34)
Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study. (2020) (33)
Children's Out-of-School Independently Mobile Trips, Active Travel, and Physical Activity: A Cross-Sectional Examination from the Kids in the City Study. (2016) (33)
What shape is your neighbourhood? Investigating the micro geographies of physical activity. (2015) (32)
Community-based malaria control in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. (1999) (30)
Connecting Place and the Everyday Practices of Parenting: Insights from Auckland, New Zealand (2009) (29)
Controlled before-after intervention study of suburb-wide street changes to increase walking and cycling: Te Ara Mua-Future Streets study design (2018) (28)
Children’s Transport Built Environments: A Mixed Methods Study of Associations between Perceived and Objective Measures and Relationships with Parent Licence for Independent Mobility in Auckland, New Zealand (2019) (26)
Enabling participation for disabled young people: study protocol (2018) (25)
Development of a systems model to visualise the complexity of children's independent mobility (2016) (24)
Who gets to what? Access to community resources in two New Zealand cities (2004) (24)
Digital methodologies and practices in children's geographies (2016) (23)
An option for measuring maternal mortality in developing countries: a survey using community informants (2010) (22)
Children’s everyday encounters and affective relations with place: experiences of hyperdiversity in Auckland neighbourhoods (2019) (22)
Neighbourhood built environment associations with body size in adults: mediating effects of activity and sedentariness in a cross-sectional study of New Zealand adults (2015) (22)
Being the body in question: young people’s accounts of everyday ableism, visibility and disability (2020) (21)
Children's Engagement as Urban Researchers and Consultants in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Can it Increase Children's Effective Participation in Urban Planning? (2019) (21)
An integrated conceptual model of environmental needs for New Zealand children's active travel to school (2020) (21)
Participatory Environmental Health Research in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Constraints and Opportunities (2000) (20)
A Prefigurative Politics of Play in Public Places: Children Claim Their Democratic Right to the City Through Play (2018) (20)
Pilot studies on the possible effects on malaria of small-scale irrigation dams in Tigray regional state, Ethiopia. (1998) (20)
Children are Citizens Too: Consulting with Children on the Redevelopment of a Central City Square in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (2017) (20)
Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study (2014) (20)
Distance to School is Associated with Sedentary Time in Children: Findings from the URBAN Study (2014) (20)
Differences in child-drawn and GIS-modelled routes to school: Impact on space and exposure to the built environment in Auckland, New Zealand (2018) (20)
Keeping kids safe for active travel to school: A mixed method examination of school policies and practices and children’s school travel behaviour (2020) (20)
Associations Between the Neighborhood Environment and Moderate-to-Vigorous Walking in New Zealand Children: Findings from the URBAN Study (2016) (19)
Urban inclusion as wellbeing: Exploring children's accounts of confronting diversity on inner city streets. (2015) (19)
Could strength of exposure to the residential neighbourhood modify associations between walkability and physical activity? (2015) (19)
The New Zealand Index of Neighbourhood Social Fragmentation: Integrating Theory and Data (2012) (18)
Exploring children's seasonal play to promote active lifestyles in Auckland, New Zealand. (2016) (18)
Schistosome transmission, water-resource development and altitude in northern Ethiopia (2002) (17)
What constitutes a ‘trip’? Examining child journey attributes using GPS and self-report (2014) (17)
Mobility barriers and enablers and their implications for the wellbeing of disabled children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional qualitative study (2021) (16)
“Lost in translation”: Issues with the establishment of a legal market for “low risk” psychoactive products (“legal highs”) in New Zealand (2018) (15)
Te Ara Mua - Future Streets suburban street retrofit: A researcher-community-government co-design process and intervention outcomes (2018) (15)
Community development as health promotion: evaluating a complex locality-based project in New Zealand (2007) (15)
Evaluative reasoning in public-sector evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand: How are we doing? (2015) (15)
What are the associations between neighbourhood walkability and sedentary time in New Zealand adults? The URBAN cross-sectional study (2017) (14)
Housing pathways, aspirations and preferences of young adults within increasing urban density (2020) (14)
Te Ara Mua –Future Streets: Knowledge exchange and the highs and lows of researcher-practitioner collaboration to design active travel infrastructure (2018) (14)
measuring community resource accessibility Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to (2006) (14)
The use of social science research to inform policy development: case studies from recent immigration policy (2010) (14)
Meta-analysing community action projects in Aotearoa New Zealand (2006) (13)
Issues with monitoring the safety of psychoactive products under a legal regulated market for new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’) in New Zealand (2017) (13)
Using the Public Open Space Attributable Index tool to assess children’s public open space use and access by independent mobility (2017) (13)
SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL TRAVEL: THE DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL MODES AND CO2 EMISSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND HOUSEHOLDS (2011) (12)
'A level playing field': Young people's experiences of wheelchair basketball as an enabling place. (2019) (12)
The journey to learn: Perspectives on active school travel from exemplar schools in New Zealand (2019) (12)
Engaging children in neighborhood planning for active travel infrastructure (2020) (9)
Appropriate tools and methods for tropical microepidemiology: a case-study of malaria clustering in Ethiopia (2003) (9)
Chapter 11 School closures as breaches in the fabric of rural welfare: community perspectives from New Zealand (2010) (9)
"How can we make it work for you?" Enabling sporting assemblages for disabled young people. (2020) (8)
Geographies of Obesity (2010) (7)
The normative influence of adults on youth access: Challenges and opportunities in the context of shifts away from car-dependence (2020) (7)
Using SenseCam images to assess the environment (2013) (7)
What becomes of social science knowledge: New Zealand researchers' experiences of knowledge transfer modes and audiences (2010) (7)
Facebook as soft infrastructure: producing and performing community in a mixed tenure housing development (2020) (7)
Are disadvantaged children more likely to be excluded from analysis when applying global positioning systems inclusion criteria? (2018) (6)
Reducing CO2 Emissions from Domestic Travel: Exploring the Social and Health Impacts (2008) (6)
Ways of walking: Ethnography and practice on foot – Edited by Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst (2010) (5)
Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments (2017) (5)
Inequitable mobilities: intersections of diversity with urban infrastructure influence mobility, health and wellbeing (2020) (5)
Urban public spaces, social inclusion and health (2018) (4)
Scoping assessment of transport design targets to improve public mental health (2017) (4)
Travel behaviour, experiences and choices of Aucklanders: a qualitative investigation (2006) (4)
Linking health, place and healthy communities (2005) (4)
Locating transport sector responsibilities for the wellbeing of mobility-challenged people in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021) (3)
‘Everything is community’: Developer and incoming resident experiences of the establishment phase at Waimahia Inlet (2016) (3)
The Pathway to Behaviour Change: Preliminary Findings from Te Ara Mua – Future Streets (High Scoring Researcher Abstract Award Sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers) (2019) (3)
Understanding children’s perceptions of, and priorities for, healthy neighbourhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand: study protocol for a cross-sectional study (2021) (3)
The New Zealand rental sector (2017) (3)
Impact of changing road infrastructure on children's active travel: A multi-methods study from Auckland, New Zealand (2020) (3)
Are government‐approved products containing new psychoactive substances perceived to be safer and more socially acceptable than alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs? Findings from a survey of police arrestees in New Zealand (2018) (3)
Parents’ neighbourhood self-selection and children's active transport to school (2012) (2)
“Looks like a lot of awesome things are coming out of the study!”: Reflections on researching, communicating and challenging everyday inequalities (2021) (2)
Equity and other effects of a program facilitating and promoting active travel (2022) (2)
Conducting Research with Children, Ethically and Effectively, to Inform Public Policy (2021) (2)
The influence of ethnicity on children's independent mobility (2012) (2)
Children as urban design consultants : A children’s audit of a central city square in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (2017) (2)
Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland (2005) (2)
Befrienders versus barefoot therapists: The effects of type of visitor on elderly in the community. (1985) (1)
Toward a Framework for Resilience Assessments: Working Across Cultures, Disciplines, and Scales in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2020) (1)
Community-based malaria control programme in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia: Results of a mortality survey of rural under-five children (2017) (1)
The braided river of health geography. (2021) (1)
The relationship between children’s third-place play, parental neighbourhood perceptions, and children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour (2022) (1)
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces: the future of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand (2022) (1)
Objective measures of a walkable neighbourhood: how do they fit with residents’ experiences? (2009) (1)
Corrigendum to “Differences in child-drawn and GIS-modelled routes to school: Impact on space and exposure to the built environment in Auckland, New Zealand” [Journal of Transport Geography 71 (2018) 103–115] (2019) (1)
Variegated Nature of Play for Auckland Children (2015) (1)
Children’s Neighborhoods: Places of Play or Spaces of Fear? (2015) (1)
Comparing public open spaces by neighborhood-level walkability and deprivation. (2010) (1)
Creating the Circuit Breakers: An Examination of the Sociotechnical System Factors Which Impede and Enable the Delivery of Safe and Healthy Neighbourhood Street Design in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021) (1)
Te Ara Mua – Future Streets: can a streetscape upgrade designed to increase active travel change residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood safety? (2022) (1)
Density in the Suburbs: Families with Children Adapting to Living in a Medium Density Social Housing Development (2021) (1)
The Impacts of COVID-19 Responses on Children, Youth and Their Environments in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia (2022) (1)
An integrated conceptual model of environmental needs for New Zealand children's active travel to school: Environmental needs for active school travel (2020) (1)
Scoping Study for Waitakere City Council (2006) (1)
individual fruit and vegetable consumption to supermarkets and convenience stores on The contextual effects of neighbourhood access (2008) (1)
Does the relationship between dwelling density and physical activity change with different neighbourhood boundaries (2012) (1)
Effect of short and long periods of heavy work on metabolism. (1939) (0)
Getting Places In New Zealand Neighbourhoods (2006) (0)
Are disadvantaged children more likely to be excluded from analysis when applying global positioning systems inclusion criteria? (2018) (0)
Shaping Cities for Youth – Exploring the Transport, Place, and Wellbeing Needs of Marginalised Youth in New Zealand (2019) (0)
Inclusive access in transport policy and practice: Views of New Zealand transport practitioners (2021) (0)
Te Ara Mua Future Streets: Co-Designing and Seeing an Active Travel Intervention to Completion (2019) (0)
'Street ergonomics'; designing community routes to optimise usability and public health outcomes (2015) (0)
Book Review: Placing Health: Neighbourhood Renewal, Health Improvement and Complexity Tim Blackman, 2006 Bristol: The Policy Press 246 pp. £55.00 hardback; £24.99 paperback ISBN 978 1 86134 611 7 hardback; 978 1 86134 610 0 paperback (2007) (0)
Children’s Everyday Lives in Inner-City Auckland (2017) (0)
Mobility Injustice and Disabled Young People: Appropriating the Swiss Cheese Model (2019) (0)
What Contributes to High Rates of Active School Travel? Perspectives of Exemplar Schools in New Zealand (2018) (0)
'We were raised in cars, we were raised to like them': Aucklanders talk about public transport (2005) (0)
A61 Integrated research design for sustainable cities: Te Ara Mua – Future Streets (2015) (0)
COMMUNITY WELLBEING AND THE TRIP TO WORK: INTEGRATING EPIDEMIOLOGY, POLICY AND COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE USING PARTICIPATORY SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING (2011) (0)
Development in measurement of children's perceptions on built environment and their school travel routes (2017) (0)
Submission by the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities on the RMA Issues and Options Paper , ‘ Opportunities for Change ’ (0)
How Do Neighbourhood Deﬁnitions Inﬂuence the Associations between Built Environment and Physical Activity? (2019) (0)
From environmental epidemiology to action for climate and health: the potential of participatory system dynamics modelling (2013) (0)
Children's Accounts of Confronting City Street Life: Can the inner city be truly child-friendly? (2013) (0)
Effects of Te Ara Mua – Future Streets Suburban Street Retrofit on Traffic Speed and Volume: Controlled Before-After Study (2023) (0)
Work-related travel behaviours: What roles do neighbourhood type and preference play? (2012) (0)
Te Ara Mua -Future Streets: An Encounter with Business-As-Usual Transport Planning (2017) (0)
Inclusive Streetscapes: Disabled People and Older Citizens Charting a Roadmap to Equity (2019) (0)

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