Geographies of obesity
Subtitle: environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic
By: edited by Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten
Series: Geographies of health; Ashgate's geographies of health series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780754676195
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : bringing a geographical perspective to understanding the 'obesity epidemic' / Jamie Pearce and Karen Witten; 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 and Anne M. Kavanagh; title: Childhood obesity and the food environment / Mat Walton and 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; title: Conclusions : common themes and emerging questions / Jamie Pearce and Karen Witten.