Geographies of obesity
Subtitle: environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic
By: [edited] by Jamie Pearce and Karen Witten.
Contributors: Pearce, Jamie.; Witten, Karen.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754676195
Subjects: Obesity -- Epidemiology; Obesity -- Prevention; Obesity -- epidemiology; Obesity -- prevention & control; Environment; Risk Factors; World Health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emerging obesity epidemic : an introduction / Barry M. Popkin; title: Contextual determinants of obesity : an overview / Daniel Kim and Ichiro Kawachi; title: Changing food environment and obesity : an overview / Janet Hoek and Rachael McLean; title: Understanding the local food environment and obesity / Lukar E. Thornton, Anne M. Kavanagh; title: Childhood obesity and the food environment / Mat Walton & Louise Signal; title: The role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape / Billie Giles-Corti ... [et al.]; title: Understanding the local physical activity environment and obesity / Gavin Turrell; title: Childhood obesity, physical activity, and the physical environment / Melody Oliver and Grant Schofield; title: Policy responses and obesogenic food environments / Katrina Giskes; title: Policy responses and the physical environment / Mylène Riva and Sarah Curtis; title: Residential environments and obesity : estimating causal effects / Graham Moon; title: Measuring obesogenic environments representing place in studies of obesity / Dianna Smith ... [et al.]; title: Recourse to discourse : talk and text as avenues to understand environments of obesity / Robin Kearns.