Understanding environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity behaviors: where should we look and what should we count? Ball, Kylie, Timperio, Anna and Crawford, David 2006, Understanding environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity behaviors: where should we look and what should we count?, International journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, vol. 3, no. 33, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-3-33. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads ball-understandingenvironmental-2006.pdf Published version application/pdf 285.88KB 124 Title Understanding environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity behaviors: where should we look and what should we count? Author(s) Ball, Kylie Timperio, Anna Crawford, David Journal name International journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity Volume number 3 Issue number 33 Start page 1 End page 8 Publisher BioMed Central Place of publication London, England Publication date 2006 ISSN 1479-5868 Summary Research interest in the influence of environmental factors on nutrition and physical activity behaviors has surged internationally in recent years. This is evident from a rapidly expanding literature and facilitated by advances in methodological and analytical approaches to assessing multiple levels of influence on health behaviors. However, a number of conceptual challenges complicate research endeavours in this field. The purpose of this paper is to provide a 'state of the science' overview of evidence regarding environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity behaviors. We focus particularly on a number of key conceptual and methodological issues, including: a consideration of how the environment is defined; the selection and operationalization of environmental exposures; and the importance of integrating existing understanding of individual influences on behavior with the emerging data on the role of the environment. We draw on examples from the published literature including our own research studies to illustrate these issues. We conclude by proposing a research agenda to progress understanding of the influences of the environment on population nutrition and physical activity behaviors. Notes This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Language eng DOI 10.1186/1479-5868-3-33 Field of Research 111712 Health Promotion HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Ball et al Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30003785 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 21:36:13 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 09:22:02 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 136 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 567 Abstract Views, 124 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:03:07 EST

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