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55
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2060
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116

Overview

Yan Kestens is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and works primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on transportation and health-related fields.

Their main fields of study encompass social sciences broadly, with subfields including transportation, health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, general health professions, and physiology.

The research topics Yan Kestens covers emphasize urban transport and accessibility, health disparities and outcomes, urban green space and health, physical activity and health, obesity, physical activity and diet, community health and development, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Notable recent publications by Yan Kestens include:

  • "Rethinking walkability and developing a conceptual definition of active living environments to guide research and practice" (2022, BMC Public Health)
  • "Operationalising the 20-minute neighbourhood" (2022, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
  • "Disparities in Access to Healthy Diets: How Food Security and Food Shopping Behaviors Relate to Fruit and Vegetable Intake" (2020, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
  • "Micro urban spaces and mental well-being: Measuring the exposure to urban landscapes along daily mobility paths and their effects on momentary depressive symptomatology among older population" (2023, Environment International)
  • "Recruiting Participants for Population Health Intervention Research: Effectiveness and Costs of Recruitment Methods for a Cohort Study" (2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Yan Kestens frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Health & Place
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Public Health
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health

Frequent collaborators with whom Yan Kestens has coauthored multiple works include:

  • Daniel Fuller
  • Meghan Winters
  • Benoît Thierry
  • Basile Chaix
  • Caislin L. Firth

Best Publications

  • Health inequalities and place: a theoretical conception of neighbourhood.

    Paul Bernard;Rana Charafeddine;Katherine L. Frohlich;Mark Daniel

  • Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

    Camille Perchoux;Basile Chaix;Steven Cummins;Yan Kestens

  • GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: a step forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal inference?

    Basile Chaix;Julie Méline;Julie Méline;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • An Interactive Mapping Tool to Assess Individual Mobility Patterns in Neighborhood Studies

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Noëlla Karusisi;Noëlla Karusisi

  • Use of a New Public Bicycle Share Program in Montreal, Canada

    Daniel Fuller;Lise Gauvin;Yan Kestens;Mark Daniel;Mark Daniel

  • Using experienced activity spaces to measure foodscape exposure.

    Yan Kestens;Alexandre Lebel;Mark Daniel;Marius Thériault

  • Social capital and core network ties: A validation study of individual-level social capital measures and their association with extra- and intra-neighborhood ties, and self-rated health

    Spencer Moore;Ulf Bockenholt;Mark Daniel;Mark Daniel;Mark Daniel;Katherine Frohlich

  • Heterogeneity in hedonic modelling of house prices: looking at buyers’ household profiles

    Yan Kestens;Marius Thériault;François Des Rosiers

  • Neighborhood characteristics and depressive mood among older adults: an integrative review

    Dominic Julien;Lucie Richard;Lise Gauvin;Yan Kestens

  • Framing the biosocial pathways underlying associations between place and cardiometabolic disease.

    Mark Daniel;Spencer Moore;Yan Kestens

  • Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight.

    Yan Kestens;Alexandre Lebel;Alexandre Lebel;Basile Chaix;Christelle Clary

  • Detecting activity locations from raw GPS data: a novel kernel-based algorithm.

    Benoit Thierry;Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens

  • Active transportation and public transportation use to achieve physical activity recommendations? A combined GPS, accelerometer, and mobility survey study

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • Neighborhood Effects on Health: Correcting Bias From Neighborhood Effects on Participation

    Basile Chaix;Nathalie Billaudeau;Frédérique Thomas;Sabrina Havard

  • Social inequalities in food exposure around schools in an urban area.

    Yan Kestens;Mark Daniel;Mark Daniel

  • The Impact of Surrounding Land Use and Vegetation on Single-Family House Prices

    Yan Kestens;Marius Thériault;François Des Rosiers

  • Associations Between Perceived Proximity to Neighborhood Resources, Disability, and Social Participation Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the VoisiNuAge Study

    Mélanie Levasseur;Mélanie Levasseur;Lise Gauvin;Lucie Richard;Yan Kestens

  • Impact Evaluation of a Public Bicycle Share Program on Cycling: A Case Example of BIXI in Montreal, Quebec

    Daniel Fuller;Lise Gauvin;Yan Kestens;Mark Daniel

  • Modelling interactions of location with specific value of housing attributes

    Marius Thériault;François Des Rosiers;Paul Villeneuve;Yan Kestens

  • Associations of Supermarket Characteristics with Weight Status and Body Fat: A Multilevel Analysis of Individuals within Supermarkets (RECORD Study)

    Basile Chaix;Kathy Bean;Mark Daniel;Shannon N. Zenk

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Daniel
Mark Daniel University of Canberra
Basile Chaix
Basile Chaix Sorbonne University
Lise Gauvin
Lise Gauvin University of Montreal
Laurette Dubé
Laurette Dubé McGill University
Ulf Böckenholt
Ulf Böckenholt Northwestern University
Juan Merlo
Juan Merlo Lund University
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University
Norbert Schmitz
Norbert Schmitz McGill University
Michel Fournier
Michel Fournier Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bärbel Knäuper
Bärbel Knäuper McGill University

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