Healthy lifestyle: Promoting walking behaviour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

While most people recognise that walking is good for their health, very few do enough regular walking to derive the maximum health benefits. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of local residents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and found that 65.1% did not achieve the recommended standards for walking to gain any health benefits,27.4% did not walk at all, and only 1% regularly engaged in neighbourhood walking.These findings are important to better inform local government departments about the current situation and justifies the need for new intervention strategies to promote walking. This is because frequent physical activity, such as walking, is important for a person’s health and well-being, with many individuals in urban settings heavily reliant on engagement in such activities through the intervention delivered by local government agencies.