Neighborhood social environments, healthy resources, and adult diabetes: Accounting for activity space exposures

G Sharp, RT Kimbro - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
This study broadens contextual environments to include adults' activity spaces—inside and
outside the residential neighborhood—to examine how contextual exposures shape type 2 …

Correlates of healthy eating in urban food desert communities

A Karpyn, CR Young, Z Collier, K Glanz - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The food environment is well documented as an important emphasis for public health
intervention. While theoretical models of the relationship between the food environment and …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of multidimensional socioeconomic and built environment factors with body mass index trajectories among youth in geographically …

MN Poulsen, TA Glass, J Pollak… - Preventive Medicine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding contextual influences on obesity requires comparison of heterogeneous
communities and concurrent assessment of multiple contextual domains. We used a …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity among black women in food deserts: An “omnibus” test of differential risk

S Gailey, TA Bruckner - SSM-population health, 2019 - Elsevier
The “omnibus” hypothesis, as forwarded by Ford and Dzewaltowski (2008), asserts that poor-
quality food environments differentially affect low-and high-socioeconomic status (SES) …

Neighbourhood deprivation and obesity among 5656 pre-school children—findings from mandatory school enrollment examinations

TH Nguyen, S Götz, K Kreffter, S Lisak-Wahl… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The risk of child obesity is strongly related to socioeconomic factors such as individual
socioeconomic position (SEP) and neighbourhood deprivation. The present study analyses …

Neighborhood disadvantage across the transition from adolescence to adulthood and risk of metabolic syndrome

CL Martin, JB Kane, GL Miles, AE Aiello, KM Harris - Health & place, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the association between neighborhood disadvantage from
adolescence to young adulthood and metabolic syndrome using a life course epidemiology …

Examining neighborhood and interpersonal norms and social support on fruit and vegetable intake in low-income communities

A Dulin, PM Risica, J Mello, R Ahmed, KB Carey… - BMC Public Health, 2018 - Springer
Background We examined whether neighborhood-, friend-, and family-norms and social
support for consumption and purchase of fruits and vegetables (F&V) were associated with …

Neighborhood environment perceptions associate with depression levels and cardiovascular risk among middle-aged and older adults: Data from the Washington, DC …

MR Andrews, J Ceasar, K Tamura… - Aging & mental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Little is understood about associations between neighborhood characteristics
and depression, a cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor, in diverse populations. We …

Associations of the objective built environment along the route to school with children's modes of commuting: A multilevel modelling analysis (the SLIC study)

LSMM Bosch, JCK Wells, S Lum, AM Reid - PloS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
As active commuting levels continue to decline among primary schoolchildren, evidence
about which built environmental characteristics influence walking or cycling to school …

Associations between the neighborhood social environment and obesity among adolescents: Do physical activity, screen time, and sleep play a role?

R Saelee, JA Gazmararian, R Haardörfer, SF Suglia - Health & place, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract This study examines:(1) the association between the neighborhood social
environment and obesity among adolescents,(2) whether physical activity, screen time, and …