Food and Park Environments: Neighborhood-level Risks for Childhood Obesity in East Los Angeles

Kipke, Michele D.; Iverson, Ellen; Moore, Deborah; Booker, Cara L; Ruelas, Valerie; Peters, Anne L.; Kaufman, Francine

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.10.021

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“…This distance was selected because it has been used in previous research that has examined school proximity to other retailers, such as fast-food restaurants, that sell products relevant to public health. 33,34 Neighbourhood Socio-economic Status Socio-economic status was measured at the DA level using the PCCF+ program that was created by Statistics Canada. 30 Two variables were used to rank DAs into quintiles that summarized the "neighbourhood income per person equivalent" based on the adjusted household income and the low-income cut-off used in the 2006 Census.…”

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Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick

Slaunwhite

McEachern

Ronis

et al. 2017

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this project was to evaluate how changes to the sale of alcohol in New Brunswick would be distributed across urban and rural communities, and low-and high-income neighbourhoods. The study objectives were to 1) estimate the population living close to alcohol outlets before and after liquor distribution reforms, 2) identify communities or regions that would be more or less affected, and 3) determine whether expanding access to alcohol products would reduce school proximity to retailers. METHODS:Data from Statistics Canada, Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc. (DMTI), and geocoded publicly available information were spatially linked and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The populations living within 499 m, 500-999 m and 1-5 km of an outlet were estimated, and the distances from schools to stores were examined by geographic characteristics and neighbourhood socio-economic status. CONCLUSION:The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of considering social, economic and health inequities in the context of alcohol policy reforms that will disproportionately affect low-income neighbourhoods and youth living within these areas.KEY WORDS: Alcohol policy; public health; youth; substance abuse La traduction du résumé se trouve à la fin de l'article.

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Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick

Slaunwhite

McEachern

Ronis

et al. 2017

Can J Public Health

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“…Paul found little association between exposure to any food outlets in surrounding school areas (800, 1600 and 3000 m from the school) and dietary intake of 349 adolescents. Despite US findings showing food outlets are clustered around schools (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22) , existing evidence between local fast-food outlet exposure and eating behaviour among adolescents outside US contexts is limited (24) , prompting further investigation.…”

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Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Svastisalee

Pedersen

Schipperijn

et al. 2015

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Objective: We examined associations between fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet exposure. Design: Information from the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children Study was linked to fast-food outlets in seventy-five school neighbourhoods. We used multivariate multilevel logistic regression analyses to examine associations between at least weekly fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet measures. Subjects: Data represent 4642 adolescents (aged 11-15 years) in Denmark. Results: Boys reporting two or more fast-food outlets had 34 % higher odds consuming fast food at least weekly. We detected higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake among 15-year-old 9th graders (OR all = 1·74; 95 % CI 1·40, 2·18; OR boys = 2·20; 95 % CI 1·66, 2·91; OR girls = 1·41; 95 % CI 1·03, 1·92), Danish speakers (OR all = 2·32; 95 % CI 1·68, 3·19; OR boys = 2·58; 95 % CI 1·69, 3·93; OR girls = 2·37; 95 % CI 1·46, 3·84) and those travelling 15 min or less to school (OR all = 1·21; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·46; OR girls = 1·44; 95 % CI 1·08, 1·93) compared with 11-year-old 5th graders, non-Danish speakers and those with longer travel times. Boys from middle-(OR = 1·28; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·65) and girls from low-income families (OR = 1·46; 95 % CI 1·05, 2·04) had higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake compared with those from high-income backgrounds. Girls attending schools with canteens (OR = 1·47; 95 % CI 1·00, 2·15) had higher odds of at least weekly fastfood intake than girls at schools without canteens. Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that perceived food outlets may impact fast-food intake in boys while proximity impacts intake in girls. Public health planning could target food environments that emphasize a better understanding of how adolescents use local resources.

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“…From our study, it is obvious that micro-geographic characteristics (such as the built environment and neighbourhood quality) do not seem to significantly influence the overweight/obesity of the surveyed teenagers, so that the main influences reside in the family environment and individual life-style habits. Public health policies therefore have to focus on individual-, family-, and school-based interventions to promote a healthy life style (Dodson et al, 2009;Kipke et al, 2007;Nestle, 2010;Simon et al, 2008). Parents might be targetted to increase their involvement in their children's leisure time activities, mainly hobbies and physical exercise.…”

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Food and Park Environments: Neighborhood-level Risks for Childhood Obesity in East Los Angeles

Cited by 151 publications

References 27 publications

Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick

Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick

Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Teenage overweight and obesity: A pilot study of obesogenic and obesoprotective environments in the Czech Republic

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