Emerging Issues in Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments: Strategies for Addressing Land Use, Transportation, and Safety in 3 California-Wide Initiatives

Mounting research has suggested linkages between neighborhood safety, community design, and transportation patterns and eating and activity behaviors and health outcomes. On the basis of a review of evaluation findings from 3 multisite healthy eating and activity initiatives in California, we provid...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 100; no. 11; pp. 2146 - 2148
Main Authors ABOELATA, Manal J, NAVARRO, Amanda M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Public Health Association 01.11.2010
Subjects
Advocacy
Biological and medical sciences
California - epidemiology
Chronic illnesses
Collaboration
Community
Disease prevention
Environmental Approaches to Obesity Prevention
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Exercise
Feeding Behavior
Food
Food Supply - legislation & jurisprudence
General aspects
Health Behavior
Health care
Health Promotion - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Promotion - methods
Humans
Initiatives
Land use
Local government
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Neighborhoods
Obesity
Obesity - prevention & control
Prevention programs
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public officials
Residence Characteristics
Safety - legislation & jurisprudence
Social Change
Traffic control
Transportation - legislation & jurisprudence
Violence
Zoning ordinances
California
United States
North America
America
Physical exercise
Improvement
Toxicity
Use
Strategy
Physical environment
Safety
Public health
Food
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Summary:Mounting research has suggested linkages between neighborhood safety, community design, and transportation patterns and eating and activity behaviors and health outcomes. On the basis of a review of evaluation findings from 3 multisite healthy eating and activity initiatives in California, we provide an overview of 3 community process strategies-engaging local advocates, linking safety to health, and collaborating with local government officials-that may be associated with the successful development and implementation of long-term community-improvement efforts and should be explored further.
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Peer Reviewed
Both authors conceptualized ideas, reviewed and analyzed evaluation data, interpreted findings, synthesized their analyses, wrote the brief collaboratively, and reviewed the manuscript at each stage.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2010.193466