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Obesogenic environments: exploring the built and food environments -…
Obesogenic environments: exploring the built and food environments
The obesogenicity
The sum of influences that the surroundings, opportunities, or conditions of life have on promoting obesity in individuals
Environments
The environment can be
related to health through:
its physical design (the built environment);
the socio-cultural rules that govern these environments
the socio-economic status of these environments
Food environments and the ability of the environment to encourage physical activity, or active living, can be closely related to health.
Built environment
physical design
land use patterns (residential, commercial, office, industrial, and other activities)
transportation systems.
Food and nutrition environments
The food environment can include availability and accessibility to food as well as food advertising and marketing.
A popular form of eating out is the fast-food outlet. Owing to its high energy density, fast food has been implicated in the obesity epidemic
The workplace and particularly school food environments have received a lot of interest. Schools have been recognised as important environments that can shape and influence the health related habits of young people
Measuring the obesogenic
environment
Methods for assessing the built
environment varied from
indirect measures (e.g. combination of survey
data to estimate socio-economic status)
intermediate measures (e.g. use of telephone book,
yellow pages or marketing databases)
direct measures (e.g. face to face interviews
by trained investigators).
A combination of objective and subjective measurements are important in explaining the relationship between weight gain, obesity and the environment