The built environment and obesity.
By M. Papas, A. Alberg, R. Ewing, K. Helzlsouer, T. Gary, A. Klassen. Epidemiologic Reviews, 2007
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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Speech and Hearing, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention (2002, background): “There is increasing evidence of associations between the built environment and obesity and physical activity levels.(36,39,40) Poor access to sidewalks, parks, and recreation facilities is associated with greater obesity risk,(41) whereas neighborhoods that facilitate walking and safe physical recre”
- Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations. (2009, background): “Although evidence relating the built environment to obesity has recently been reviewed (22), we know little about whether these associations are consistent across population groups.”
- Physical activity and food environments: solutions to the obesity epidemic. (2009, background): “were mixed on the question of fast-food density, noting methodological limitations (Papas et al. 2007).”
- Neighborhood Built Environment and Income: Examining Multiple Health Outcomes (2009, background): “Previous studies found walkable neighborhoods protected against overweight and obesity (Papas et al., 2007), but the present study extends previous work.”
- Early‐life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviews (2010, background): “Society and built environment A systematic review explored the relationship between built environment and obesity in children 3–18 years of age (99).”
- Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2015, background): “In a review of 20 studies investigating this link among studies published between 2002 and 2006, 17 studies found a positive association between neighborhood built environment and obesity.(106) Other reviews have also found consistent evidence that neighborhood built/physical environment is associat”
- Australian Dietary Guidelines (2006, background): “These changes all promote excess weight gain by fostering consumption of energy-dense and relatively nutrient-poor foods and/or reduced physical activity [726, 735-738].”
- Determinants of childhood obesity: What can we learn from built environment studies? (2014, background): “Indeed, in previous reviews on built environment 65 correlates of obesity, no studies had been found prior to the year 2000 (Carter & Dubois, 66 2010; Dunton, Kaplan, Wolch, Jerrett, & Reynolds, 2009; Feng, Glass, Curriero, Stewart, & 67 Schwartz, 2009; Galvez, Pearl, & Yen, 2010; Papas et al., 2007”
- The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture (2015, neutral): “effects of given characteristics on obesity have been inconsistent [66–72], revealing the fundamental challenge of teasing out whether neighborhood characteristics play a causal role in weight status, or whether health-minded folks inhabit health-friendly areas to begin with (residential”