ReviewObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2020
Obesity and the Built Environment: A Reappraisal.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations Between the Built Environment and Adult Obesity and the Mediating Role of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
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- The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
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- The impacts of various green space types on the adiposity of undergraduate students: a nationwide quasi-experimental study.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Defining household exposure to the food environment: A comparison of measures based on residential area and activity space.PloS one · 2025Article
- Examining Diabetes Status by the Social Determinants of Health Among Adults in Hawai'i.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2024Article
- Residential Density Is Associated With BMI Trajectories in Children and Adolescents: Findings From the Moving to Health Study.AJPM focus · 2024Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Prevention Outcomes: Insights from the Prediabetes Informed Decisions and Education Study.Health equity · 2024Article
- BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS FOR ACTIGRAPH DATA FROM WEARABLE DEVICES.The annals of applied statistics · 2023Article
- Association of census-tract level gentrification and income inequality with 6-year incidence of metabolic syndrome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, an epidemiologic cohort study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Diet composition and energy intake in humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Obesity and environments external to the body.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The Relationship between Body Weight and Primary Healthcare Visits.Population research and policy review · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Built Environment and Sleep Health: A Longitudinal Study in Low-Income and Predominantly African-American Neighborhoods.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The built environment (BE) has been viewed as an important determinant of health. Numerous studies have linked BE exposure, captured using a variety of methods, to diet quality and to area prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. First-generation studies defined the neighborhood BE as the area around the home. Second-generation studies turned from home-centric to person-centric BE measures, capturing an individual's movements in space and time. Those studies made effective uses of global positioning system tracking devices and mobile phones, sometimes coupled with accelerometers and remote sensors. Activity space metrics explored travel paths, modes, and destinations to assess BE exposure that was both person and context specific. However, as measures of the contextual exposome have become ever more fine-grained and increasingly complex, connections to long-term chronic diseases with complex etiologies, such as obesity, are in danger of being lost. Furthermore, few studies on obesity and the BE have included intermediate energy balance behaviors, such as diet and physical activity, or explored the potential roles of social interactions or psychosocial pathways. Emerging survey-based applications that identify habitual destinations and associated travel patterns may become the third generation of tools to capture health-relevant BE exposures in the long term.
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