Geographies of obesity : environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pearce, Jamie, Witten, Karen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Series:Ashgate's geographies of health series.
Subjects:
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