Public Policy and Obesity: The Need to Marry Science with Advocacy

Wang, Shirley S.; Brownell, Kelly D.

doi:10.1016/j.psc.2004.09.001

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“…The built environment impacts transportation decisions via a feedback loop, marked "B" in Figure 2, as infrastructure available for walking has been shown to increase the likelihood of walking, 3,42,49 and increased local walking has been shown to provide support for improving the local walking infrastructure. 25 A third feedback loop, marked "C" in Figure 2, shows that the perception of the built environment, independent of the actual built environment, also interacts with transportation decisions as the perception that the built environment is walkable may increase the likelihood of walking, 1,37 and increased walking in an area may increase the perception that the area is walkable.…”

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Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

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This study investigates the relationships between the built environment, the physical attributes of the neighborhood, and the residents' perceptions of those attributes. It focuses on destination walking and self-reported health, and does so at the neighborhood scale. The built environment, in particular sidewalks, road connectivity, and proximity of local destinations, correlates with destination walking, and similarly destination walking correlates with physical health. It was found, however, that the built environment and health metrics may not be simply, directly correlated but rather may be correlated through a series of feedback loops that may regulate risk in different ways in different contexts. In particular, evidence for a feedback loop between physical health and destination walking is observed, as well as separate feedback loops between destination walking and objective metrics of the built environment, and destination walking and perception of the built environment. These feedback loops affect the ability to observe how the built environment correlates with residents' physical health. Previous studies have investigated pieces of these associations, but are potentially missing the more complex relationships present. This study proposes a conceptual model describing complex feedback relationships between destination walking and public health, with the built environment expected to increase or decrease the strength of the feedback loop. Evidence supporting these feedback relationships is presented.

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Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

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“…8 According to the 2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children, the monitoring of weight in patients at risk for obesity should be an integral part of primary care. 6 However, minimal attention is often given to long-term weight management by primary care physicians.…”

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“…Because individuals may have great difficulty making lifestyle modifications, and in the absence of effective medication or widespread surgical interventions, a paradigm shift in how obesity is managed is needed that takes into account such an environment. 6,8,13 An example is the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada, a set of 27 recommendations developed because of the growing cardiovascular health and economic burden linked to excessive sodium consumption.…”

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Legislative approaches to tackling the obesity epidemic

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Grandi³

et al. 2011

Canadian Medical Association Journal

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“…Using recent prevalence statistics for obesity from Diabetes Australia, it is calculated that the financial cost of obesity for Australia is around $AU8?3 billion per annum (5) . The increasing rates of obesity are not merely a result of an individual's food and exercise choices (6) . Instead, changes in the physical and social environments contextualise behaviours and play increasingly important roles in the choices that individuals can make relating to food and exercise (7) .…”

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“…With the large number of migrants arriving from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, Logan must look at new approaches to provide these communities with appropriate health and social services including information on nutrition (11) . While health care is an essential component of efforts to deal with obesity, public health interventions focused on prevention should also be a priority to lessen the impact of the disease on individuals, communities and society as a whole (6) . A WHO consultation paper (2) identified nutrition and physical activity education for both adults and children as a strategy for obesity prevention.…”

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Understanding the nutrition information needs of migrant communities: the needs of African and Pacific Islander communities of Logan, Queensland

Williams

Harris

2010

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the nutrition information needs of the Pacific Islander and African migrant communities of Logan. Design: The present study was structured as a needs assessment and used qualitative research methods. An integrative review was used to gather and analyse data relating to comparative and normative needs, while semi-structured interviews were undertaken for the felt and expressed needs. Setting: Logan City, Queensland, Australia. Subjects: African and Pacific Islander migrants and health and social service providers within the Logan region. Results: The study identified the need for more accessible means of information delivery such as visual and face-to-face methods or hands-on demonstrations. The study found that information should be delivered in a staged approach on topics including food safety, Australian foods, healthy eating and diet-disease relationships, according to a migrant's length of residence in Australia. Conclusions: The present study contributes to our understanding of the nutrition information needs of African and Pacific Islander migrant communities of Logan. These findings will enable the development of more appropriate nutrition information and health services for these Logan communities and other similar communities across Australia.

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Public Policy and Obesity: The Need to Marry Science with Advocacy

Cited by 39 publications

References 36 publications

Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

Complexity in Built Environment, Health, and Destination Walking: A Neighborhood-Scale Analysis

Legislative approaches to tackling the obesity epidemic

Understanding the nutrition information needs of migrant communities: the needs of African and Pacific Islander communities of Logan, Queensland

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