Karen Witten

Geographies of Obesity

Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic
Herausgeber: Pearce, Jamie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. By the year 2000, 65% of the United States population were overweight, 30% of these obese. Whilst medical treatment has tended to focus on individual habits of diet and exercise, this approach does little to account for globally increasing levels of obesity, and the external, environmental factors that may be responsible. This in-depth study assembles the evidence for a geographical explanation of current obesity trends, and is the first work to examine the ways in which environment and living conditions promote an imbalance of energy intake over energy expenditure. The book calls upon the expertise of geographers, nutritionists, epidemiologists, sociologists and public health researchers, resulting in a broad, multidisciplinary analysis of this important health issue. Cover graphic designed by Georgia Witten-Sage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780754676195
• ISBN-10: 0754676196
• Artikelnr.: 42357883

Autorenporträt

Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh, UK and Karen Witten, Massey University, New Zealand

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
1: Bringing a Geographical Perspective to Understanding the 'Obesity Epidemic'
2: The Emerging Obesity Epidemic: An Introduction
3: Contextual Determinants of Obesity: An Overview
II: Food Environment and Obesity (Energy In)
4: Changing Food Environment and Obesity: An Overview
5: Understanding the Local Food Environment and Obesity
6: Childhood Obesity and the Food Environment
III: Physical Activity, Environment and Obesity (Energy Out)
7: The Role of the Changing Built Environment in Shaping Our Shape
8: Understanding the Local Physical Activity Environment and Obesity
9: Childhood Obesity, Physical Activity and the Physical Environment
IV: Obesogenic Environments and Policy Responses
10: Policy Responses and Obesogenic Food Environments
11: Policy Responses and the Physical Environment
V: Future Research Challenges
12: Residential Environments and Obesity - Estimating Causal Effects
13: Measuring Obesogenic Environments - Representing Place in Studies of Obesity
14: Recourse to Discourse: Talk and Text as Avenues to Understand Environments of Obesity
VI: Conclusions
15: Conclusions: Common Themes and Emerging Questions