Background Understanding which physical environmental factors affect adult obesity, and
how best to influence them, is important for public health and urban planning. Previous …

Background Self-selection into residential neighbourhoods is a widely acknowledged, but
under-studied problem in research investigating neighbourhood influences on physical …

The effects of the built environment (BE) on modes of transport have been extensively
evaluated in the literature with a primary focus on the neighborhood-level BE. Moreover, it …

Objectives. We investigated whether moving to neighborhoods with closer proximity of
destinations and greater street connectivity was associated with more walking, a greater …

Preliminary evidence suggests that neighborhood environments, such as socioeconomic
disadvantage, pedestrian and physical activity infrastructure, and availability of …

Objective The aim of this study is to examine a relationship between neighborhood-level
socioeconomic deprivation and weight change in a multi-ethnic cohort from Dallas County …

Abstract Using data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper examines the
impacts of the built environment on individual BMI and the risk of overweight, directly and …

Background The increasing prevalence of obesity across all age groups has become a
major health concern in China. Previous studies have found strong links between population …

Are neighborhoods causal? The answer remains elusive. Armed with new multilevel
methods, enthusiasm for neighborhoods research surged at the turn of the century …