Social networks and healthy cities: spreading good practices based on a Spanish Case Study
Social networks and healthy cities: spreading good practices based on a Spanish Case Study
The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain is considered a “healthy city” and has implemented sustainable actions to increase the mobility of its healthcare professionals.The objectives of this study are firstly to account for the use of bicycles at work as a strategy for a healthy city and secondly to propose a conceptual framework for analyzing this network and its capacity to spread their practices The paradigm proposed is that of social networks, within which sharing between contacts is explained by means of two models: the “threshold model” and “opinion leaders.
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Benito del Pozo, Paz
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Serrano, Nestor
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Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
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1 October 2017
Benito del Pozo, Paz
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Serrano, Nestor
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Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
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Benito del Pozo, Paz, Serrano, Nestor and Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
(2017)
Social networks and healthy cities: spreading good practices based on a Spanish Case Study.
Geographical Review, 107 (4), .
(doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12210.x).
Abstract
The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain is considered a “healthy city” and has implemented sustainable actions to increase the mobility of its healthcare professionals.The objectives of this study are firstly to account for the use of bicycles at work as a strategy for a healthy city and secondly to propose a conceptual framework for analyzing this network and its capacity to spread their practices The paradigm proposed is that of social networks, within which sharing between contacts is explained by means of two models: the “threshold model” and “opinion leaders.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 14 September 2017
Published date: 1 October 2017
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