Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

The high prevalence of childhood obesity has led to questions about the influence of
'obesogenic'environments on children's health. Public health interventions targeting the …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between the planning of settlements and
health. It gives a brief introduction to the issues before summarising the evidence in relation …

The use of GPS devices in health research is increasingly popular. There are currently no
best-practice guidelines for collecting, processing, and analyzing GPS data. The …

Context The presence of retail food establishments around schools can be a potentiating or
protective factor for overweight in students, depending on access to these places as well as …

Grocery store is usually considered to be a healthy food outlet as it provides access to a
variety of healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables, which may potentially improve overall …

Various measures of the obesogenic environment have been proposed and used in
childhood obesity research. The variety of measures poses methodological challenges to …

Background Based on the need for better measurement of the retail food environment in
rural settings and to examine how deprivation may be unique in rural settings, the aims of …

Background: Obesity rates among school-age children remain high. Access to energy-dense
foods at home, in schools, in stores, and restaurants around homes and schools is of …

Using objectively-measured height and weight data from academic years 2009–2013 (n=
1,114,010 student-year observations), we estimated the association between the food outlet …