Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Obesogenic
environments: exploring
the built and food
environments
- Obesogenicity of an
environment
- The obesogenicity
of an environment
- Definition
- conditions that
promote
obesity in the
population
- ENVIRONMENTS
- Health related
- its physical design (the
built environment)
- socio-cultural rules
that govern these
environments
- The
socio-economic
status
- microenvironments
- school, workplace,
home, neighbourhood.
- macroenvironments
- Education and health systems,
government policy, society’s
attitudes and beliefs
- BUILT ENVIRONMENT
- consists of
three elements
- land use patterns
- Residential,
commercial,
office,
industrial, etc.
- transportation
systems.
- physical design
- Cities and
Communities.
- suburbs
- ‘less
walkable’
- obesity
related
- Cities
- higher levels of
residential density
- land-use mix, access
to subway stations
and bus stops, and
street connectivity
- Lowest BMI in
population
- FOOD AND NUTRITION
- Availability and
accessibility to food
- food access
- Food for home
consumption from
supermarkets and
grocery shops
- out-of-home
consumption from
restaurants and
take-aways.
- fast-food
- food advertising and
marketing.
- the influence
of industry
- advertising to
children
- consumption of
energy dense
micronutrient-poor
foods.
- MEASURING THE
OBESOGENIC
- Direct measures
- face to face
interviews by
trained
investigators
- Indirect measures
- combination of survey
data to estimate
socio-economic status
- Intermediate
measures
- use of telephone book,
yellow pages or marketing
databases
- objective
measurements
- actual counts
of traffic
- subjective
measurements
- an individual’s
self-reported
perception of crime in
their neighbourhood
- FUTURE WORK
- prevention
- programmes
aimed at children
and adolescents
- Research studies
- about the connection
between location, diet,
and activity in youth.
- To explore factors
related to their
environment and urban
space
- Log of dietary intake
and activity levels
- Health programs for
youth and children
- obesity prevention