Violent crime and outdoor physical activity among inner-city youth

Gómez, Jesús María Fernández

doi:10.1016/s0091-7435(04)00178-1

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“…17 Additionally, areas that are medically underserved may also be characterized by poor access to healthy foods or lack of opportunities for physical activities, defining a particularly "obesogenic" environment. 12,13 The wide variability in the prevalence of overweight between centers seems to be unrelated to racial/ethic or geographic differences between centers but may be a result of unmeasured variations in the environment. Although HRSA-funded community health centers serve communities that are medically underserved but not necessary of low income, the populations of many of these communities also are of low income.…”

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“…More than 4.7 million children are clients of these centers, 11 mainly located in inner-city and rural areas, and they may be at increased risk for obesity, because medically underserved communities are also often areas in which access to healthy foods and physical activity opportunities are limited, 12,13 creating a particularly "obesogenic" environment. Because community health centers respond directly to the communities that they serve, depend less on funding from private insurers, and are successful in reducing health care-access disparities, [14][15][16][17] they may constitute a particularly promising setting for pediatric obesity prevention and treatment if it is confirmed that they serve a high-risk population.…”

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High Prevalence of Overweight Among Pediatric Users of Community Health Centers

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Conclusions. The present study identified a population of children at particularly high risk for obesity based on the type of health care delivery system they use regardless of race/ethnicity or geographic characteristics. Because community health centers are experienced in prevention and serve >4.7 million children in the United States, they may be a particularly promising point of access and setting for pediatric obesity prevention.

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“…Social factors such as poverty, built environment, accessibility of healthy foods, safety, and school physical education and sports team availability and policies may lead to decreased opportunities for routine exercise in urban youth. [38][39][40][41] Previous studies document an association between weight status and emotional disorders, especially depression. 18,20 Of the students endorsing depressive symptoms in the current study, the majority were females (67.7%).…”

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BMI, Body Image, Emotional Well-Being and Weight-Control Behaviors in Urban African American Adolescents

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Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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IMPORTANCE-While urban African American adolescents face significant health disparities associated with overweight and obesity that follow them into adulthood; there is limited data on body image, emotional well-being, and weight control behaviors in this population to design effective public health interventions.OBJECTIVE-This study was designed to understand the association of weight status to adolescent weight control, body image, and emotional well-being responses, in African American high school students. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS-The study cohort consisted of 776 students, mean age 15.8 years (±1.2). Data from Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) student surveys and anthropometric studies were collected at School-Based Health Centers.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES-Associations between adolescent responses on the GAPS and body mass index (BMI) status (healthy weight: 5th to less than 85th percentile, overweight: 85th to less than 95th percentile, obese: 95th percentile or greater) were estimated using logistic regression and dose-response plots.RESULTS-There were statistically significant associations between BMI category and weight control (ranging from a mean 5.18 to 7.68 odds of obesity) and body image (3.40 to 13.26 odds of obesity) responses. Responses to weight control and body image questions exhibited a doseresponse for odds of overweight and obesity. Feelings of depressed mood were associated with obesity (1.47 times the odds of obesity compared to students who did not endorse depressed mood; 95% CI, 1.01 to 2.13) but not overweight status. HHS Public Access

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“…Participation in public places is key to the development of competencies as citizens (Di Masso 2012, Weller 2003 and the sustainable development of cities (Rogers 2006). Unfortunately, failing to attend to the needs of youth has contributed to a D R A F T 10 burgeoning public health concern with a range of minor health and wellbeing problems that originate in youth and result in a whole host of problems magnified in adulthood (Francois, Overstreet, and Cunningham 2011, Franzini et al 2010, Fuller-Rowell, Evans, and Ong 2012, Gamez et al 2004, Harden et al 2009, Jennings et al 2011). This sets up adolescents with persistent problems across the lifetime.…”

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Big Data in the Big Easy: How Social Networks Can Improve the Place for Young People in Cities

Shirtcliff¹

2015

Landscape Journal

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Access to social data on human experience of place has never been more available than now. Social media, smart phones, and the Internet of Things provide glimpses into individual activity across the globe. The nearly-boundless stream of information is called "big data. " Today, physically and even socially disconnected individuals can benefit from the similar experiences of others to adapt and change their environment. I argue that big data provides two critical benefits for landscape architecture research and practice: (1) big data opens a window into previously inaccessible human experiences of designed environments, introducing new metrics for evidence-based design and new ways of improving design literacy; and (2) the design, planning, and management of the land-especially in cities-can benefit from scraping big data to support urban ecological design. My study of YouTube use in New Orleans shows that big data can advance landscape research to support positive, interdependent relationships between people and built environments. Landscape architecture would benefit by harnessing this resource to better understand relationships with place and encourage individuals to participate in the design, creation, and evolution of cities. Ben Shirtcliff, PhD ABSTRACT Access to social data on human experience of place has never been more available than now. Social media, smart phones, and the internet of things provide glimpses into individual activity across the globe. The nearly-boundless stream of information is called "Big Data".Today, physically and even socially disconnected individuals can benefit from the similar experiences of others to adapt and change their environment. I argue that big data provides two critical benefits for landscape architecture research and practice: (1) big data opens a window into previously inaccessible human experience of designed environments, introducing new metrics for evidence-based design and new ways of improving design literacy; (2) the design, planning, and management of the land, especially in cities, can benefit from scraping big data to support urban ecological design. My study using YouTube in New Orleans shows that big data can advance landscape research to support positive, interdependent relationships between people and built environments. Landscape architecture would benefit by harnessing this resource to better understand relationships with place and encourage individuals to participate in the design, creation, and evolution of cities.

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Violent crime and outdoor physical activity among inner-city youth

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High Prevalence of Overweight Among Pediatric Users of Community Health Centers

High Prevalence of Overweight Among Pediatric Users of Community Health Centers

BMI, Body Image, Emotional Well-Being and Weight-Control Behaviors in Urban African American Adolescents

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