Objective To identify factors using the Ecological Model of Childhood Overweight related to
accessing nutritious foods and physical activity opportunities from the perspectives of rural …

During the past three decades the prevalence of childhood obesity has steadily increased in
the United States. Causes of childhood obesity are complex and include numerous …

Home environment and family lifestyle practices have an influence on child obesity risk,
thereby making it critical to systematically examine these factors. Thus, parents (n= 489) of …

Multi-level interventions promoting healthy weight in rural preschool children aged 2–5
years are limited. With the goal of developing a community-informed obesity prevention …

Abstract Background The Ecological Model of Childhood Overweight focuses on
characteristics that could affect a child's weight status in relation to the multiple environments …

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test a home food and activity instrument to discriminate
between the home environments of obese and healthy weight preschool children. DESIGN …

Background The home and neighborhood environments may be important in obesity
prevention by virtue of food availability, food preparation, cues and opportunities for physical …

Despite the growth in empirical research on neighborhood environmental characteristics
and their influence on children's diets, physical activity, and obesity, much remains to be …

Purpose Despite public health efforts to reduce childhood obesity, there remains an unequal
distribution of obesity among rural and urban children, with higher rates in rural areas …

Objective A stakeholder-informed contextual model for rural obesity prevention emerged
from community-engaged participatory research and resident-informed resource maps and …