Built Environment
Perceived and Observed Food Environments, Eating Behaviors, and BMI
This study examines relationships between perceived and observed nutrition environments, diet, and BMI, in order to examine the criterion validity of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey–Perceived (NEMS–P).Built Environment Assessment and Interventions for Obesity Prevention: Moving the Field Forward
The Built Environment Assessment Training (BEAT) Institute ( www.med.upenn.edu/beat/ ) was developed to prepare and encourage investigators and practitioners to use observational and self-reported measures of nutrition and activity environments and related behavioral assessments. This focused training Institute integrated the disciplinary foci of nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, urban planning, and transportation.Objective Assessment of Obesogenic Environments in Youth: Geographic Information System Methods and Spatial Findings from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids Study
GIS-based walkability measures designed to explain active travel fail to capture “playability” and proximity to healthy food. These constructs should be considered when measuring potential child obesogenic environments.Obesogenic Neighborhood Environments, Child and Parent Obesity: The Neighborhood Impact on Kids Study
Identifying neighborhood environment attributes related to childhood obesity can inform environmental changes for obesity prevention.Changes in Physical Activity and Travel Behaviors in Residents of a Mixed-Use Development
Mixed-use developments may be especially promising settings for encouraging walking and other types of physical activity.
