Background Activity-friendly neighbourhood physical environments with access to
recreational facilities are hypothesised to facilitate leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) …

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and remote
sensing (RS) are revolutionizing obesity-related research. The primary applications of GIS …

There is a need for conceptual and methodological innovation in food environment-health
research. We compared different operationalizations of survey-derived activity space …

Climate change impacts are intensifying social inequalities locally and globally. Exposure to
climate risks, as well as the ability to prepare for and recover from them, are affected by …

Findings from research on the association between the built environment and obesity
remain equivocal but may be partly explained by differences in approaches used to …

Neighbourhood resources are often considered to be spatially accessible to people when
they are located close to their place of residence, a perspective which overlooks individuals' …

Environmental exposures (EE) are increasingly recognised as important determinants of
health and well-being. Understanding the influences of EE on health is critical for effective …

Multilevel models are one of the main statistical methods used in modeling contextual effects
in social sciences. A common limitation of these methods is the use pre‐set boundaries …

Little research has investigated associations between a combined measure of the food and
physical activity (PA) environment, BMI (body-mass-index) and obesity. Cross-sectional data …

Neighbourhoods are one of the major areas of focus of place attachment research.
However, the understanding of the physical space linked to the term “neighbourhood” is …