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Food environment and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

By pinpointing areas with high concentrations of unhealthy food outlets relative to healthy ones, policymakers and urban planners can devise ...

The Built Environment and Pediatric Health - AAP Publications

Such initiatives can promote physical activity and teach children about traffic safety in urban and rural areas.106,107. Food Environment. The ...

New Insights into Urban Sustainability and Health with Geoff Boeing

Next, it discusses how these kinds of data can unlock new measures of accessibility, health, and sustainability around the world. Benchmarking and monitoring ...

Urban form and livability: socioeconomic and built environment ...

Spatial relations among urban elements (buildings, streets, etc.) constantly affect the quality of urban spaces, creating more or less livable cities.

Built Environment Correlates of Diabetes and Obesity: Methodology

Data on food environment geolocation and individual-level data were used to analyze the density of different food outlets within 400 m of each participant's ...

Health and the Built Environment - Institute for Local Government

The industrial era of the 19th and early 20th centuries created cities that provided economic opportunity to millions of foreign immigrants and migrants from ...

Measuring the Built Environment in Studies of Child Health—A Meta ...

The Health concept included two sub-concepts: health activities and behaviours, and health outcomes and wellbeing, to capture sufficient breadth of studies that ...

Built environment and health - Australian Institute of Health and ...

Managing these interactions is important in minimising negative impacts of urban development, such as pollution and urban heat islands (see ...

Chapter 11: Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities

Urban residents feel economic impacts from food price volatility and the costs of insurance, energy, and water. , Climate change also threatens the integrity of ...

The built environment and obesity - RACGP

... population density as the measure to determine urban sprawl.18–24. Ongoing ... Food security can vary according to area; for example, the cost of fresh ...

Physical Activity: Built Environment Approaches

Assessing impact of urban form measures on nonwork trip mode choice after ... Areas”) OR (MH “Urban Areas”); neighborhood*; (MH “Fitness Centers”); (MH ...

Strategies to Assess and Enhance the Community Food Environment

The community food environment (CFE), also sometimes called the “local food environment,” refers to the built environment in a local area where ...

Chapter: 2 The Built Environment, Obesity, and Health

... cities' progress in improving the built environment. (Rodrigo Reis); Transportation and land use can positively mediate the built environment's impact on ...

Measuring Food Environments - Penn CCEB

As in any area of emerging interest, familiarity with previous efforts to measure food and nutrition environments can help researchers and practitioners build ...

Food Environments: An Introduction for Public Health Practice

3 Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo ... Food environments are created by the human-built and social environments.

Chapter 9: How neighbourhood social and built environments ...

(2015), 'Measuring social interaction and social cohesion in a high density urban renewal area: the case of Green Square', paper presented at ...

The Built Environment and Public Health - Engineering Rome

These additional factors include urban and housing development, transportation systems, industrial practices, food and water management as well as the degree to ...

How the Built Environment Can Encourage Healthy Lifestyles

“There can be significant disparities in a city between the areas that have a more health-promoting built environment,” Wojcik said. “Rural ...

Measuring the Food Environment in Canada

... food access and food security in a major urban centre: The bigger question in regards to assessing food environments is assessing access to affordable food ...

Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment ...

For example, whereas walkability highlights the attractiveness of urban areas for walking [(14)], the OBCT index integrates the food environment ...