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Neighborhoods, Schools and Obesity: The Potential for Place-Based Approaches to Reduce Childhood Obesity
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 6, p e0157479 (2016), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
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Abstract
- A common policy approach to reducing childhood obesity aims to shape the environment in which children spend most of their time: neighborhoods and schools. This paper uses richly detailed data on the body mass index (BMI) of all New York City public school students in grades K-8 to assess the potential for place-based approaches to reduce child obesity. We document variation in the prevalence of obesity across NYC public schools and census tracts, and then estimate the extent to which this variation can be explained by differences in individual-level predictors (such as race and household income). Both unadjusted and adjusted variability across neighborhoods and schools suggest place-based policies have the potential to meaningfully reduce child obesity, but under most realistic scenarios the improvement would be modest.
- Subjects :
- Male
Gerontology
Pediatric Obesity
Physiology
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
Overweight
Body Mass Index
Families
Race (biology)
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Residence Characteristics
Epidemiology
Prevalence
Medicine and Health Sciences
Ethnicities
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
lcsh:Science
Hispanic People
Children
Family Characteristics
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Geography
4. Education
1. No poverty
Census
3. Good health
Physiological Parameters
Research Design
Income
Neighborhoods
Female
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Research Article
medicine.medical_specialty
Childhood Obesity
Adolescent
Research and Analysis Methods
Human Geography
Childhood obesity
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Environmental health
medicine
Humans
Obesity
Students
Survey Research
030505 public health
Racial Groups
Body Weight
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
medicine.disease
Age Groups
People and Places
Earth Sciences
Household income
New York City
Population Groupings
lcsh:Q
Body mass index
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f606acc613e9ab7bb9153e629c3898af