Childhood obesity and community food environments in Alabama's Black Belt region

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 668-676

  Li, Y ^a   Robinson, L E ^b   Carter, W M ^a   Gupta, R ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Belt region; Childhood obesity; Community food environments; Mixed methods

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALABAMA; CALORIC INTAKE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTING; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESTAURANTS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84938787727     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cch.12204     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Barone, J. A. (2005) Historical presence and distribution of prairies in the Black Belt of Mississippi and Alabama. Castenea, 70, 170-183.
2. Burdette, H. L. & Whitaker, R. C. (2004) Neighborhood playgrounds, fast food restaurants, and crime: relationships to overweight in low-income preschool children. Preventive Medicine, 38, 57-63.
3. Burns, C. M. & Inglis, A. D. (2007) Measuring food access in Melbourne: access to healthy and fast foods by car, bus, and foot in an urban municipality in Melbourne. Health and Place, 13, 877-885.
4. Carroll-Scott, A., Gilstad-Hayden, K., Rosenthal, L., Peters, S., McCaslin, C., Joyce, R. & Ickovics, J. (2013) Disentangling neighborhood contextual associations with child body mass index, diet, and physical activity: the role of built, socioeconomic, and social environments. Social Science & Medicine, 95, 106-114.
5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012) About BMI for children and teens. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/childrens_bmi/about_childrens_bmi.html (last accessed 10 November 2012).
6. Cory, A. (2007) The Influence of Home, School, and Community Contexts on Childhood Obesity: A Multilevel Study. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
7. Davy, B. M., Harrell, K., Stewart, J. & King, D. S. (2004) Body weight status, dietary habits, and physical activity levels of middle school-aged children in rural Mississippi. Southern Medical Journal, 97, 571-577.
8. Field, A., Carlosa, S. J., Barrtaylor, C., Berkey, C., Frazier, L., Gillman, M. & Colditz, G. (1999) Overweight, weight concerns, and bulimic behaviors among girls and boys. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 754-760.
9. Frank, L., Saelens, B., Chapman, J., Sallis, J., Kerr, J., Glanz, K., Couch, S., Learnihan, V., Zhou, C., Colburn, T. & Cain, K. (2012) Objective assessment of obesogenic environments in youth, geographic information system methods and spatial findings from the neighborhood impact on kids study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42, e47-e55.
10. Franzini, L., Elliott, M. N., Cuccaro, P., Schuster, M., Gilliland, J., Grunbaum, J. A., Franklin, F. & Tortolero, S. R. (2009) Influences of physical and social neighborhood environments on children's physical activity and obesity. American Journal of Public Health, 99, 271-278.
11. Glanz, K., Bader, M. D. M. & Lyer, S. (2012) Retail grocery store marketing strategies and obesity: an integrative review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42, 503-512.
12. Gordon-Larsen, P., Nelson, M. C., Page, P. & Popkin, B. M. (2006) Inequality in the built environment underlies key health disparities in physical activity and obesity. Pediatrics, 117, 417-424.
13. Grow, M. G., Cook, A. J., Arterburn, D. E., Saelens, B. E., Drewnowski, A. & Lozano, P. (2010) Child obesity associated with social disadvantage of children's neighborhoods. Social Science and Medicine, 71, 584-591.
14. Holsten, J. (2008) Obesity and the community food environment: a systematic review. Public Health Nutrition, 12, 397-405.
15. Huff, D. L. (1963) A probabilistic analysis of shopping center trade areas. Land Economics, 39, 81-90.
16. Kowalski, K., Crocker, P. & Donen, R. (2004) The Physical Activity Questionnaire for Older Children (PAQ-C) and Adolescents (PAQ-A) Manual. Available at: http://www.dapa-toolkit.mrc.ac.uk/documents/en/PAQ/PAQ_manual.pdf (last accessed 10 January 2013).
17. Lanigan, J. D. (2010) The substance and sources of young children's healthy eating and physical activity knowledge: implications for obesity prevention efforts. Child: Care, Health and Development, 37, 368-376.
18. Leung, C. W., Laraia, B. A., Kelly, M., Nickleach, D., Adler, N. E. & Kushi, L. H. (2011) The influence of neighborhood food stores on change in young girls' body mass index. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 41, 43e51.
19. Li, Y. & Liu, L. (2012) Assessing the impact of retail location store performance: a comparison study of Wal-Mart and Kmart stores in Cincinnati. Applied Geography, 32, 591-600.
20. Mathews, S. A. (2012) Thinking about place, spatial behavior, and spatial processes in childhood obesity. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42, 516-520.
21. McMurray, R. G., Harrell, J. S., Bangdiwala, S. I. & Deng, S. (1999) Cardiovascular disease risk factors and obesity of rural and urban elementary school children. The Journal of Rural Health, 15, 365-374.
22. Moore, L., Diez Roux, A., Nettleton, J. & Jacobs, D. J. (2008) Associations of the local food environment with diet quality - a comparison of assessments based on surveys and geographic information systems: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 167, 917-924.
23. Morland, K. & Evenson, K. (2009) Obesity prevalence and the local food environment. Health and Place, 5, 491-495.
24. Oreskovic, N. M., Kuhlthau, K. A., Romm, D., Nicolas, M. & Perrin, J. M. (2009) Built environment and weight disparities among children in high- and low-income towns. Academic Pediatrics, 9, 315-321.
25. Procter, K. L., Rudolf, M. C., Feltbower, R. G., Levine, R., Connor, A., Robinson, M. & Clarke, G. P. (2008) Measuring the school impact on child obesity. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 341-349.
26. Tobler, W. (1970) A computer movie simulating urban growth in the Detroit region. Economic Geography, 46, 234-240.
27. United States Census Bureau (2010) 2010 Census Data. United States Census Bureau. Available at: http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/ (last accessed 20 November 2012).
28. Velde, S., Bourdeaudhuij, I., Thorsdottir, I., Rasmussen, M., Hagströmer, M., Klepp, K. & Brug, J. (2007) Patterns in sedentary and exercise behaviors and associations with overweight in 9-14-year-old boys and girls - a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health, 7, 16.
29. Walker, R. E., Keane, C. & Burke, J. (2010) Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: a review of food deserts literature. Health and Place, 16, 876-884.
30. Zhang, X. Y., Lu, H. & Holt, J. B. (2011) Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study. International Journal of Health Geographics, 10, 1-14.