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 …

Analyzing individual exposure in urban areas offers several challenges where both the
individual's activities and air pollution levels demonstrate a large degree of spatial and …

Many fundamental notions in geographic and social science research still tend to be
conceptualized largely in static spatial terms, ignoring how our understanding of the issues …

This study examined relationships among individual demographics, environmental features
(eg, fast food outlet density, park land use) of residential neighborhoods and activity spaces …

A considerable body of literature has investigated how environmental exposures affect
health through various pathways. These studies have generally adopted a common …

Recent studies have relied on GPS tracking to assess exposure to environmental
characteristics over daily life schedules. Combining GPS and GIS allows for advances in …

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 …

As their most critical limitation, neighborhood and health studies published to date have not
taken into account nonresidential activity places where individuals travel in their daily lives …

Objectives. We examined whether past-year suicidality among sexual-minority adolescents
was more common in neighborhoods with a higher prevalence of hate crimes targeting …

Individual activity patterns are influenced by a wide variety of factors. The more important
ones include socioeconomic status (SES) and urban spatial structure. While most previous …