نتایج جستجو برای: neighborhood environment

تعداد نتایج: 544573  

2013
Amy H. Auchincloss Mahasin S. Mujahid Mingwu Shen Erin D. Michos Melicia C. Whitt-Glover Ana V. Diez Roux

OBJECTIVE While behavioral change is necessary to reverse the obesity epidemic, it can be difficult to achieve and sustain in unsupportive residential environments. This study hypothesized that environmental resources supporting walking and a healthy diet are associated with reduced obesity incidence. DESIGN AND METHODS Data came from 4,008 adults aged 45-84 at baseline who participated in a ...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2008
Vicki A Freedman Irina B Grafova Robert F Schoeni Jeannette Rogowski

This paper uses the US Health and Retirement Study to explore linkages between neighborhood conditions and stages of the disablement process among adults aged 55 years and older in the United States. We consider multiple dimensions of the neighborhood including the built environment as well as social and economic conditions. In doing so, we use factor analysis to reduce indicators into eight ne...

2015
Michael Laxy Kristen C Malecki Marjory L Givens Matthew C Walsh F Javier Nieto

BACKGROUND Neighborhood-level characteristics such as economic hardship and the retail food environment are assumed to be correlated and to influence consumers' dietary behavior and health status, but few studies have investigated these different relationships comprehensively in a single study. This work aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level economic hardship, the retai...

Background and objective: The process of post-disaster reconstruction in developing societies has a high tendency for micro-scale physical renovation. This tendency, that ignore the non-physical issues, originate from the lack of large-scale planning expertise, the lack of social participation mechanisms and the political considerations that govern these countries that do not reduce vulnerabili...

2016
Dara D. Mendez Tiffany L. Gary-Webb Rachel Goode Yaguang Zheng Christopher C. Imes Anthony Fabio Jessica Duell Lora E. Burke

The purpose of this study was to examine the neighborhood environment and the association with weight change among overweight/obese individuals in the first six months of a 12-month weight loss intervention, EMPOWER, from 2011 to 2015. Measures of the neighborhood environment included neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood income, and neighborhood food retail stores density (e.g., grocer...

Human behaviors and activities of individuals are created in urban spaces, and cultural and social relationships are formed in these spaces. Considering the main source of insecurity among citizens in the cities and the important factors such as the physical form of the city, urban structures and the shape of buildings in this case, the purpose of the study is to measure the effect of the sense...

2013
Janne Boone-Heinonen Ana V. Diez-Roux David C. Goff Catherine M. Loria Catarina I. Kiefe Barry M. Popkin Penny Gordon-Larsen

BACKGROUND Recent obesity prevention initiatives focus on healthy neighborhood design, but most research examines neighborhood food retail and physical activity (PA) environments in isolation. We estimated joint, interactive, and cumulative impacts of neighborhood food retail and PA environment characteristics on body mass index (BMI) throughout early adulthood. METHODS AND FINDINGS We used c...

Journal: :Journal of clinical epidemiology 2015
Colette Andrea Cunningham-Myrie Katherine P Theall Novie O Younger Emily A Mabile Marshall K Tulloch-Reid Damian K Francis Shelly R McFarlane Georgiana M Gordon-Strachan Rainford J Wilks

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of neighborhood disorder, perceived neighborhood safety, and availability of recreational facilities on prevalence of physical activity (PA), obesity, and diabetes mellitus (DM). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Multilevel analyses were conducted among 2,848 respondents from the 2007-08 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey. Neighborhood effects were based on aggregated ...

2015
Brittany L. Smalls Chris M. Gregory James S. Zoller Leonard E. Egede

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that community and neighborhood characteristics can impact health outcomes of those with chronic illness, including T2DM. Factors, such as crime, violence, and lack of resources have been shown to be barriers to optimal health outcomes in diabetes. Thus, the objective of this study is to assess the effects of neighborhood factors on diabetes-related health outcomes...

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