Background and Objectives: Neighborhood environments may play a role in the
development of child obesity by providing or limiting opportunities for children to be …

Background Neighborhood walking connotes physical activity and opportunities for social
and cognitive engagement and improved mental health, factors previously associated with …

Based on a sample of migrant children in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, this study
investigated the effects and mechanisms of the neighborhood environment on the physical …

Background Environmental factors may contribute to short sleep duration and irregular
bedtime in children. Neighborhood factors and children's sleep duration and bedtime …

Disparities in minority health are strongly associated with reduced access to culturally
familiar food and physical activity opportunities. This qualitative study explores a Midwest …

Unhealthy food intake is one of the main risk factors for morbidity and mortality for non-
communicable diseases (NCDs), and is associated with multiple factors, including the …

There is extensive research in the area of school violence prevention that has collectively
helped to illuminate trends, identify disparities in experiences with school violence across …

Neighborhood conditions are associated with health outcomes, but whether individual
health behaviors are independent of or associated with the settings are not clear. We …

Background Obesity among youth with epilepsy has multifactorial etiology, yet socioecologic
obesity risk factors (eg, neighborhood factors) have not been examined in this population …

Background Understanding determinants of metabolic risk has become a national priority
given the increasingly high prevalence rate of this condition among US adults. Purpose This …