Geographies of obesity : environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2010]
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| Series: | Ashgate's geographies of health series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : bringing a geographical perspective to understanding the 'obesity epidemic'
- The emerging obesity epidemic : an introduction
- Contextual determinants of obesity : an overview
- Changing food environment and obesity : an overview
- Understanding the local food environment and obesity
- Childhood obesity and the food environment
- The role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape
- Understanding the local physical activity environment and obesity
- Childhood obesity, physical activity, and the physical environment
- Policy responses and obesogenic food environments
- Policy responses and the physical environment
- Residential environments and obesity : estimating causal effects
- Measuring obesogenic environments : representing place in studies of obesity
- Recourse to discourse : talk and text as avenues to understand environments of obesity
- Conclusions : common themes and emerging questions