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"The obesogenic environment describes the sum of influences that our surroundings, opportunities or conditions of life have on promoting obesity in individuals or populations. In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118786611 |
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"The obesogenic environment describes the sum of influences that our surroundings, opportunities or conditions of life have on promoting obesity in individuals or populations. In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. Beginning with an overarching introduction to obesity and its implications for health and wellbeing, the book will move on to consider such crucial areas as eating behaviours and food environments, physical activity and food access. This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the knowledge of dietitians, epidemiologists and town planners in order to offer a multidisciplinary approach to public health, suggesting new and exciting ways to shape our environment to better support healthful decisions"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444323795 1444323792 9781118786611 1118786610 9781444347821 1444347829 |
| Index Number: | RC628 |
| CLC: | R589.2 |
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Objective measures of the environment -- Comparing perceived and objective measures -- Relationships with utilisation -- Equity of access and facility provision -- Conclusions -- Defining and Mapping Obesogenic Environments for Children / Children's obesogenic environments -- Advantages of mapping obesogenic environments in children -- How to map obesogenic environments -- data representation -- Problems with spatial data -- Spatial analysis techniques -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Objective Measurement of Children's Physical Activity in the Environment: UK Perspective / UK policy and research context -- brief review of current studies in the United Kingdom -- CAPABLE: Children's Activities, Perceptions and Behaviour in the Local Environment -- SPEEDY: Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people -- PEACH: Personal and Environmental Associations with Children's Health -- Objective measurement in physical activity research -- Motion sensors -- Use of GPS to investigate children's spatial mobility -- Combining GPS and accelerometry -- Physical Activity and Environments Which Promote Active Living in Youth (US) / Introduction -- Background -- Case examples -- School and child care -- Active transport to school -- Within-school environments -- After-school programs -- Child care settings -- Community settings (home/neighbourhood) -- Young children -- School-age children and adolescents -- Conclusions and future research -- Active Travel / potential for active travel. Trends in active travel -- Barriers to active travel -- Overcoming the barriers to active travel -- Policies and measures to increase the volume of active travel -- effectiveness of policies and measures to increase the volume of active travel -- Greenspace, Obesity and Health: Evidence and Issues / Greenspace, health and obesity -- Greenspace, obesity and food -- Greenspace and physical activity -- Greenspace as a setting for exercise -- Greenspace as a motivation for exercise -- Greenspace and children's health -- Greenspace provision and policy -- historic context -- institutional context -- policy context -- Eating Behaviours and the Food Environment / Which eating behaviours influence obesity risk? -- What do we know about the influence of the food environment on eating behaviours? -- Adults -- Observational studies -- Experimental studies -- Children and adolescents -- Summary of evidence -- How should we interpret existing evidence? -- Defining the neighbourhood environment -- Should we assess subjective or objective food environments? -- importance of understanding the behavioural context -- Are existing conceptual models adequate and appropriate? -- Conclusions and future research directions -- Food Policy and Food Governance -- Changing Behaviours / Dietary guidelines and recommendations with reference to obesity prevention -- Individual versus the environment -- Food policy. overarching food policy landscape -- Public health -- Agriculture -- Planning policy -- Food provision and food access -- Future for food policy -- Neighbourhood Histories and Health: Social Deprivation and Food Retailing in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1966-2005 / Data and methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- Environmental Correlates of Nutrition and Physical Activity: Moving Beyond the Promise / Environmental correlates of physical activity and diet: underlying reasons for promising findings -- Environmental correlates of physical activity -- Environmental correlates of diet -- Moving beyond the promise: a research agenda -- Providing robust answers to the right questions -- Development and application of a true socio-ecological theory -- Integrating different elements of the environment -- Improving the measurement of (physical) environmental characteristics -- Exploring environmental-individual interactions -- Improving statistical methods: beyond multilevel modelling -- Improving causality -- Taking the broader context into account -- Concluding remark -- Obesogenic Environments: Challenges and Opportunities / Complexities -- Perceptions -- Objective measures -- Future directions. |