title: Network analysis of Bogotá's Ciclovía Recreativa, a self-organized multisectorial community program to promote physical activity in a middle-income country.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Conduct a social network analysis of the health and non-health related organizations that participate in Bogotá's Ciclovía Recreativa (Ciclovía).
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ciclovía is a multisectoral community-based mass program in which streets are temporarily closed to motorized transport, allowing exclusive access to individuals for leisure activities and physical activity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-five organizations that participate in the Ciclovía.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seven variables were examined by using network analytic methods: relationship, link attributes (integration, contact, and importance), and node attributes (leadership, years in the program, and the sector of the organization).
  
  
  METHODS
  The network analytic methods were based on a visual descriptive analysis and an exponential random graph model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analysis shows that the most central organizations in the network were outside of the Health sector and include Sports and Recreation, Government, and Security sectors. The organizations work in clusters formed by organizations of different sectors. Organization importance and structural predictors were positively related to integration, while the number of years working with Ciclovía was negatively associated with integration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ciclovía is a network whose structure emerged as a self-organized complex system. Ciclovía of Bogotá is an example of a program with public health potential formed by organizations of multiple sectors with Sports and Recreation as the most central.
authors: Jose D
authors: JD
authors: Meisel
authors: Olga L
authors: OL
authors: Sarmiento
authors: Felipe
authors: F
authors: Montes
authors: Edwin O
authors: EO
authors: Martinez
authors: Pablo D
authors: PD
authors: Lemoine
authors: Juan A
authors: JA
authors: Valdivia
authors: Ross C
authors: RC
authors: Brownson
authors: Roberto
authors: R
authors: Zarama
mesh_terms: D003105:Colombia; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009043:Motor Activity; D013269:Stochastic Processes
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