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Obesogenic environments : complexities, perceptions, and objective measures /

"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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lake, Amelia A., Townshend, Tim G., Alvanides, Seraphim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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  • Note continued: 4.3.2. Objective measures of the environment
  • 4.4. Comparing perceived and objective measures
  • 4.5. Relationships with utilisation
  • 4.6. Equity of access and facility provision
  • 4.7. Conclusions
  • 5. Defining and Mapping Obesogenic Environments for Children / Kimberley L. Edwards
  • 5.1. Children's obesogenic environments
  • 5.2. Advantages of mapping obesogenic environments in children
  • 5.3. How to map obesogenic environments
  • data representation
  • 5.4. Problems with spatial data
  • 5.5. Spatial analysis techniques
  • 5.6. Conclusion
  • 5.7. Acknowledgements
  • 6. Objective Measurement of Children's Physical Activity in the Environment: UK Perspective / Angie Page
  • 6.1. UK policy and research context
  • 6.2. brief review of current studies in the United Kingdom
  • 6.2.1. CAPABLE: Children's Activities, Perceptions and Behaviour in the Local Environment
  • 6.2.2. SPEEDY: Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people
  • 6.2.3. PEACH: Personal and Environmental Associations with Children's Health
  • 6.3. Objective measurement in physical activity research
  • 6.3.1. Motion sensors
  • 6.3.2. Use of GPS to investigate children's spatial mobility
  • 6.3.3. Combining GPS and accelerometry
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • 7. Physical Activity and Environments Which Promote Active Living in Youth (US) / Brian E. Saelens
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.1.1. Background
  • 7.2. Case examples
  • 7.3. School and child care
  • 7.3.1. Active transport to school
  • 7.3.2. Within-school environments
  • 7.3.3. After-school programs
  • 7.3.4. Child care settings
  • 7.4. Community settings (home/neighbourhood)
  • 7.4.1. Young children
  • 7.4.2. School-age children and adolescents
  • 7.5. Conclusions and future research
  • 8. Active Travel / Roger L. Mackett
  • 8.1. potential for active travel.
  • Note continued: 8.2. Trends in active travel
  • 8.3. Barriers to active travel
  • 8.4. Overcoming the barriers to active travel
  • 8.5. Policies and measures to increase the volume of active travel
  • 8.6. effectiveness of policies and measures to increase the volume of active travel
  • 8.7. Conclusions
  • 9. Greenspace, Obesity and Health: Evidence and Issues / Caroline Brown
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Greenspace, health and obesity
  • 9.3. Greenspace, obesity and food
  • 9.4. Greenspace and physical activity
  • 9.4.1. Greenspace as a setting for exercise
  • 9.4.2. Greenspace as a motivation for exercise
  • 9.5. Greenspace and children's health
  • 9.6. Greenspace provision and policy
  • 9.6.1. historic context
  • 9.6.2. institutional context
  • 9.6.3. policy context
  • 9.7. Conclusions
  • 10. Eating Behaviours and the Food Environment / Jo Salmon
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Which eating behaviours influence obesity risk?
  • 10.3. What do we know about the influence of the food environment on eating behaviours?
  • 10.4. Adults
  • 10.4.1. Observational studies
  • 10.4.2. Experimental studies
  • 10.5. Children and adolescents
  • 10.5.1. Observational studies
  • 10.5.2. Experimental studies
  • 10.6. Summary of evidence
  • 10.7. How should we interpret existing evidence?
  • 10.8. Defining the neighbourhood environment
  • 10.8.1. Should we assess subjective or objective food environments?
  • 10.8.2. importance of understanding the behavioural context
  • 10.8.3. Are existing conceptual models adequate and appropriate?
  • 10.9. Conclusions and future research directions
  • 11. Food Policy and Food Governance
  • Changing Behaviours / Jane L. Midgley
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Dietary guidelines and recommendations with reference to obesity prevention
  • 11.3. Individual versus the environment
  • 11.4. Food policy.
  • Note continued: 11.4.1. overarching food policy landscape
  • 11.4.2. Public health
  • 11.4.3. Agriculture
  • 11.4.4. Planning policy
  • 11.5. Food provision and food access
  • 11.6. Future for food policy
  • 12. Neighbourhood Histories and Health: Social Deprivation and Food Retailing in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1966-2005 / Peter Day
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.1.1. Data and methods
  • 12.2. Results
  • 12.3. Discussion
  • 12.4. Conclusion
  • 12.5. Acknowledgement
  • 13. Environmental Correlates of Nutrition and Physical Activity: Moving Beyond the Promise / Johnannes Brug
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Environmental correlates of physical activity and diet: underlying reasons for promising findings
  • 13.3. Environmental correlates of physical activity
  • 13.4. Environmental correlates of diet
  • 13.5. Moving beyond the promise: a research agenda
  • 13.5.1. Providing robust answers to the right questions
  • 13.5.2. Development and application of a true socio-ecological theory
  • 13.5.3. Integrating different elements of the environment
  • 13.5.4. Improving the measurement of (physical) environmental characteristics
  • 13.5.5. Exploring environmental-individual interactions
  • 13.5.6. Improving statistical methods: beyond multilevel modelling
  • 13.5.7. Improving causality
  • 13.5.8. Taking the broader context into account
  • 13.6. Concluding remark
  • 14. Obesogenic Environments: Challenges and Opportunities / Amelia A. Lake
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Complexities
  • 14.3. Perceptions
  • 14.4. Objective measures
  • 14.5. Future directions.