An ecological study of the relationship between social and environmental determinants of obesity Reidpath, Daniel D., Burns, Cate, Garrard, Jan, Mahoney, Mary and Townsend, Mardie 2002, An ecological study of the relationship between social and environmental determinants of obesity, Health & place, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 141-145, doi: 10.1016/S1353-8292(01)00028-4. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title An ecological study of the relationship between social and environmental determinants of obesity Author(s) Reidpath, Daniel D. Burns, Cate Garrard, Jan Mahoney, Mary Townsend, Mardie Journal name Health & place Volume number 8 Issue number 2 Start page 141 End page 145 Publisher Elsevier Science Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2002-06 ISSN 1353-8292 1873-2054 Keyword(s) obesity social determinant environmental determinant socioeconomic status Summary There is growing concern with the increasing prevalence of obesity in industrialised countries, a trend that is more apparent in the poor than in the rich. In an ecological study, the relationship between an area measure of socioeconomic status (SES) and the density of fast-food outlets was examined as one possible explanation for the phenomenon. It was found that there was a dose-response between SES and the density of fast-food outlets, with people living in areas from the poorest SES category having 2.5 times the exposure to outlets than people in the wealthiest category. The findings are discussed. Language eng DOI 10.1016/S1353-8292(01)00028-4 Field of Research 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, Elsevier Science Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001699 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) 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. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 13 Sep 2013, 14:02:41 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 21:27:12 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 305 times in TR Web of Science Cited 337 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1459 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:04:15 EST

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