Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia

Datos Biográficos

ID1785488
NOMBRELeandro Martin Totaro Garcia
NOMBRESLeandro Martin Totaro
APELLIDOGarcia
FIRMAGARCIA L M T
AFILIACIONESQueen's University Belfast
ORCID0000-0001-5947-2617
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAS6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Long-term follow-up of the public health impacts and co-benefits of an urban greenway intervention

    Open AccessThuy Nguyen, Christopher Tate et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026

    BACKGROUND: Evidence on the long-term impact of urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) interventions remains limited. This study is a 15-year evaluation of an urban greenway development in Belfast (United Kingdom), assessing the potential effects of this UGBS intervention on physical activity (PA), mental wellbeing and co-benefits. METHODS: Using natural experimental design, a repeated cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2010 (baseline), 2017 (po…

  • Changes in health inequalities before and after a major urban greenway intervention

    Open AccessThuy Nguyen, Caolan O''Neill et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    BACKGROUND: Evidence concerning health inequalities following urban green and blue space UGBS) interventions is limited. This study examined the changes in health inequalities after a major urban regeneration project, the Connswater Community Greenway (CCG), in Belfast, UK. METHOD: Cross-sectional household surveys were conducted in 2010/11 (baseline), 2017/18 (immediately after completion), and 2023/24 (long-term follow-up) with a sample of appr…

  • Evaluation of a bridge-based suicide intervention programme

    Open AccessNicholas Woodrow, Eleanor Holding et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Suicide is a preventable, but complex public health issue. Around one-third of suicides take place in a public location. Easy access to means of self-harm in public spaces, such as bridges, increases risk. While physical modifications (e.g., barriers) are effective for means reduction, they are not always feasible to implement. Bridge Watch is a suicide prevention initiative that uses trained volunteers to patrol public spaces around bridges in t…

  • Community resilience to climate change and non-communicable disease vulnerability in Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Open AccessFelix Assah, Blanche Nfondoh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Climate change and rapid urbanisation have intensified flood risk in Global South cities, exacerbating health inequities, especially through non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, little is known about how community resilience strategies to key climate change consequences like flooding affect NCD risk in rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Methods: We used a Community-Based System Dynamics (CBSD) approach to examine flood …

  • Collective learning for resilience in Global South cities

    Open AccessLidia Maria De Oliveira Morais, Elis Mina Seraya Borde et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Cities in the Global South face escalating climate change challenges, including extreme weather events that disproportionately affect marginalized populations and exacerbate health risks, such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Climate resilience, defined as the capacity to adapt and recover from climate-related events, requires intersectoral collaboration between governments and civil society. Methods: This study employs a Commun…

  • Factors contributing to food choice in the UK secondary school food setting

    Open AccessNiamh O’Kane, Ruth F Hunter et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: To co-develop a systems map of the UK secondary school food system and to understand what factors contribute to food choice within it. Design: Participatory methods were used with a range of UK school stakeholders to co-produce a systems map of factors contributing to food choice in the secondary school food system. An online survey with stakeholders ( n 26) was used to gather an initial list of factors, and a group model-building work…

  • Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a crisis

    Open AccessKerry A Nice, Jason Thompson et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025Referencias: 8

  • Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards

    Open AccessLeandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Leandro Garcia et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025Citada por: 1

  • Internacionalismos en disputa al interior de la Unión Sindical Argentina (1922-1924)

    Open AccessLeandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Leandro GarciaARTICLESociohistórica2024

    Este artículo analiza los debates producidos en la Unión Sindical Argentina (USA) acerca de la posición que debía adoptar la central en relación a las organizaciones internacionales del proletariado que pretendían representarlo. Se considera el periodo que se extiende entre la creación de la USA (1922) y los momentos previos a la realización de su Primer Congreso Ordinario (1924) por constituir el momento más álgido de las discusiones reflejando …

  • The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models

    Open AccessHazel Squires, Michael P Kelly et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This is the first attempt to rigorously and coherently propose methods to incorporate the influences on behaviour into health economic models of public health interventions. It may not always be feasible or necessary to model the influences on behaviour explicitly, but it is essential to develop an understanding of the key influences. Changing behaviour and maintaining that behaviour change could have different influences; thus, there could be be…

  • The contribution of urban green and blue spaces to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessChristopher Tate, Ruoyu Wang et al.ARTICLECities2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 204

    Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to make a significant contribution to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research shows the need for UGBS to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of urbanisation and provide equitable access to resources that reduce social and health inequalities. However, no previous review has attempted to consolidate this evidence within the context of the SDGs. The aim of this …

  • Como melhorar a mobilidade ativa em São Paulo, Brasil? Inquérito com lideranças de organizações não governamentais e com gestores públicos e privados

    Open AccessAlex Antonio Florindo, Italo Vinicius Floriano De Paula et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 23

    Este estudo teve como objetivo descrever um inquérito quantitativo realizado com lideranças para investigar ações efetivas, viáveis e que podem ser testadas em modelos computacionais para informar políticas de promoção da mobilidade ativa, tendo como base a cidade de São Paulo, Brasil. Em 2022, foi realizado um inquérito online no contexto da pesquisa de Atividade Física e Ambiente do Inquérito de Saúde de São Paulo, acompanhada por representante…

  • Using systems thinking to generate novel research questions for the evaluation of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation policies

    Open AccessM Alvarado, Rainer Martens et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes have been recommended by the WHO, introduced in over 85 countries, and assessed through an increasing number of evaluations. However, few studies have applied systems thinking to generate questions exploring the range of ways in which an SSB tax, and the system within which it is embedded, have adapted to one another over time. We demonstrate how adopting this perspective could advance the field. A systems thi…

  • Exploring ways to respond to rising obesity and diabetes in the Caribbean using a system dynamics model

    Open AccessLeonor Guariguata, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Diabetes and obesity present a high and increasing burden of disease in the Caribbean that have failed to respond to prevention policies and interventions. These conditions are the result of a complex system of drivers and determinants that can make it difficult to predict the impact of interventions. In partnership with stakeholders, we developed a system dynamics simulation model to map the system driving diabetes and obesity prevalence in the …

  • Barreiras e facilitadores para a prática de atividade física em diferentes domínios no Brasil

    Open AccessMarina Christofoletti, Luis A Hückstädt et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2022

    O objetivo foi revisar sistematicamente as evidências científicas sobre as barreiras e os facilitadores para a prática de atividade física (AF) na população brasileira, considerando os diferentes domínios (lazer, deslocamento, trabalho/estudo e tarefas domésticas). A busca foi conduzida nas bases de dados MEDLINE/PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, BIREME/LILACS e APA PsycNET, considerando o período de 2010 a 2020. Posteriormente, foi incluída a …

  • Barriers and facilitators for physical activity domains in Brazil

    Open AccessMarina Christofoletti, Inês Amanda Streit et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2022

    This study aimed to systematically review scientific evidence on the barriers and facilitators of physical activity (PA) among the Brazilian population, considering different domains (leisure, travel, work/study, and household). The search was conducted in the MEDLINE/PubMed, ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, BIREME/LILACS, and APA PsycNET databases and was limited to papers published between 2010 and 2020. A manual search of the Brazilian Journal of P…

  • Use of an Elevated Avenue for Leisure-Time Physical Activity by Adults from Downtown São Paulo, Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Quieroti Rodrigues, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is associated with access and use of public open spaces. The President João Goulart Elevated Avenue, currently denominated Minhocão, is a facility for leisure activities that is open for people during the night and weekends. The aim of this study was to examine if the prevalence of LTPA among individuals living in the surroundings of Minhocão is different according to proximity to, and use of, the facility. W…

  • Air pollution, physical activity and health

    Open AccessMarko Tainio, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen et al.ARTICLEEnvironment International2021

    BACKGROUND: Exposure to air pollution and physical inactivity are both significant risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These risk factors are also linked so that the change in exposure in one will impact risks and benefits of the other. These links are well captured in the active transport (walking, cycling) health impact models, in which the increases in active transport leading to increased inhaled dose of air pollution. However,…

  • Dynamic conceptual framework to investigate adoption of healthy diet through agent-based modelling

    Open AccessJamal Rahmani, Jalaledin Mirzay Razaz et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2021

    Purpose The purpose of this research is to develop a dynamic conceptual framework depicting factors related to the adoption of a healthy diet, which will underpin the development of an agent-based model (ABM) to uncover the dynamic interplay between these factors. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual framework was developed in three steps using available empirical data from a semi-structured in-depth interview qualitative study, comprehensi…

  • Identificação e análise das diretrizes nacionais de atividade física nas Américas

    Open AccessPaulo Henrique Guerra, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2021

    Visto o potencial das abordagens institucionais à promoção da saúde, o presente estudo buscou identificar os países do continente americano que possuem diretrizes nacionais de atividade física (AF) chanceladas por órgãos nacionais de saúde. Em maio de 2019 realizou-se uma revisão de escopo, com buscas em cinco bases de dados eletrônicas, sítios eletrônicos dos órgãos nacionais de saúde e contato com integrantes da Rede de Atividade Física das Amé…

  • Study protocol

    Open AccessAlex Antonio Florindo, Inaian Pignatti Teixeira et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    There are few longitudinal studies on the relationship between the built environment and physical activity behavior in low- and middle-income countries. We believe that the ISA-Physical Activity and Environment study will contribute with important results for the progress of the knowledge in this field and for the implementation of policies that promote leisure-time physical activity and active travel in Sao Paulo and similar cities across the wo…

  • Mix of destinations and sedentary behavior among Brazilian adults

    Open AccessAlex Antonio Florindo, Gavin Turrell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Greater mix of destinations within 500 m of peoples' residences was inversely associated with sitting time on a typical weekday and weekend day. In Latin American cities like Sao Paulo built environments more favorable for walking may contribute to reducing sedentary behavior and prevent associated chronic disease

  • World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Open AccessFrancis Bull, Salih S Al-Ansari et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sports Medicine2020

    Objectives To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Methods The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Guideline Development Group reviewed evidence to assess associations between physical activity and sedentary behaviour for an agreed set of health outcomes and population groups. The assessment used and systematically updated recent relevant systematic reviews; new primary r…

  • Preditores de aceitação da vacina contra influenza

    Open AccessCamila Rosas Neves, Cláudia Torres Codeço et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 21

    A dificuldade de alcançar coberturas ideais para a vacina contra influenza no Brasil e a crescente onda do movimento antivacina no mundo apontam a necessidade de aprofundar a compreensão dos determinantes individuais de adesão a essa vacina. O Modelo de Crenças em Saúde, um modelo teórico que objetiva explicar e predizer o comportamento em relação à saúde, sugere que crenças individuais influenciam a adoção de comportamentos relacionados a essa á…

  • Social consequences and mental health outcomes of living in high-rise residential buildings and the influence of planning, urban design and architectural decisions

    Open AccessPaula Barros, Linda Ng Fat et al.ARTICLECities2019