Childhood overweight and the built environment: Making technology part of the solution rather than part of the problem

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 615, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-82

  Hillier, Amy ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Penn's Urban Studies Program

^c INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Built environment; Childhood obesity; Childhood overweight; Geographic information systems; GIS; Global positioning systems; GPS; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349126489     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716207308399     Document Type: Review

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