ArticleJournal of obesity2012
Local context influence, activity space, and foodscape exposure in two canadian metropolitan settings: is daily mobility exposure associated with overweight?
Article in Journal of obesity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neighbourhood retail food outlet access, diet and body mass index in Canada: a systematic review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Pooled it
- Quantifying the foodscape: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the validity of commercially available business data.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Local perceptions of foodscapes and their representation in visual and texts: A visual content analysis of photography in Japanese coastal area.Current research in food science · 2025Article
- Spatial Aspects of Health-Developing a Conceptual Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Anti-obesity effect of Yangkyuksanwha-tang in high-fat diet-induced obese mice.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019Article
- Stability of activity space footprint, size, and environmental features over six months.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2019Article
- A scoping review on the relations between urban form and health: a focus on Canadian quantitative evidence.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Article
- How many days of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring do you need to measure activity space environments in health research?Health & place · 2018Article
- Environments favorable to healthy lifestyles: A systematic review of initiatives in Canada.Journal of sport and health science · 2018Review
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- "Contextualizing Context": Reconciling Environmental Exposures, Social Networks, and Location Preferences in Health Research.Current environmental health reports · 2017Review
- The Local Food Environment and Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach in the ORiEL Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2016Article
- Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption among Primary School Students: Influence of the Schools' Vicinity.Journal of environmental and public health · 2016Article
- Neighbourhood built environment associations with body size in adults: mediating effects of activity and sedentariness in a cross-sectional study of New Zealand adults.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Associations between children's diets and features of their residential and school neighbourhood food environments.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2012Article
- Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight.PloS one · 2012Article
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Abstract
It has become increasingly common to attribute part of the obesity epidemic to changes in the environment. Identification of a clear and obvious role for contextual risk factors has not yet been demonstrated. The objectives of this study were to explain differences in local overweight risk in two different urban settings and to explore sex-specific associations with estimated mobility patterns. Overweight was modeled within a multilevel framework using built environmental and socioeconomic contextual indicators and individual-level estimates of activity space exposure to fast-food restaurants (or exposure to visited places). Significant variations in local levels in overweight risk were observed. Physical and socioeconomic contexts explained more area-level differences in overweight among men than among women and among inhabitants of Montreal than among inhabitants of Quebec City. Estimated activity space exposure to fast-food outlets was significantly associated with overweight for men in Montreal. Local-level analyses are required to improve our understanding of contextual influences on obesity, including multiple influences in people's daily geographies.
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