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Obesogenic Environments
The Obesogenicity
Sum of influences have promoting obesity.
Obesity is a significant health and social problem which has reached pandemic levels.
The prevalence has tripled over 20 years and continues to increase at an alarming rate.
The health and social costs are high.
This disease accounts for
approximately 30,000 premature deaths.
It´s multifactorial disease.
FUTURE WORK
Public health agenda
Reducing obesity and improving nutrition
Work being planned at Newcastle University (pilot work)
1.- To record the dietary intake and physical activity levels of a crosssectional sample of 16–18-year-olds from two geographically different areas in Newcastle.
2.- To explore qualitatively specific factors related to their environment and urban space which enhance and limit their healthy food choices and physical activity.
ENVIRONMENTS
The effects on health
Social
Spiritual
Emotional
Intellectual wellbeing
Physiological ,
Related to health
The socio-cultural rules
The
socio-economic status
Physical design
Description
Microenvironments
School, workplace, home, neighbourhood
Macroenvironments
Education and health, systems, government policy, society’s, attitudes and beliefs
FOOD AND NUTRITION
ENVIRONMENTS
Two
food access pathways in relation to the food
Food for home consumption
from supermarkets and grocery shops
Ready-made food for home and
out-of-home consumption from restaurants
and take-aways.
Marketing encouraged the consumption of
energy dense micronutrient-poor foods for the children,
Consecuences
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
3 Elements:
Physical design.
Land use patterns (residential, commercial, office, industrial, andother activities)
Transportation systems
DISCUSSION
The food environment and built
environment are closely related.
This article has presented evidence to support the existence of an obesogenic environment.
Studies conducted in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, the majority of the evidence has been collected in the USA.
MEASURING THE OBESOGENIC
ENVIRONMENT
Methods to link
the built environment with obesity
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)
