tailieunhanh - Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 8

Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 8. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation. | Using CBPR to Understand the Health Implications 51 health behavior and health education sociology epidemiology human nutrition and environmental health sciences as well as a wider range of community partners including organizations working on issues of environmental justice. These new interdisciplinary collaborations enabled the collection of a number of nutrition-related measures as part of the survey of residents a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire anthropometric measures of height weight and waist circumference and a variety of biomarkers . cholesterol .43 The survey also included measures of participants perceptions of the neighborhood food environment. Community partners provided space where survey participants could come to have their blood drawn and helped to ensure that data collection procedures were culturally appropriate and had suitable safeguards for participants confidentiality. Using these data HEP has begun a series of analyses examining relationships among independently observed and perceived measures of the retail food environment . proximity of different types of retail food outlets food availability quality and price dietary behaviors and related health outcomes . obesity serum cholesterol in residents of eastside southwest and northwest Detroit. Among the initial findings of these analyses are that residents perceptions of the neighborhood food environment are associated with factors at multiple levels including their individual educational attainment neighborhood racial composition and store Another analysis revealed that availability of a large neighborhood grocery store was positively associated with fruit and vegetable intake and that the neighborhood food environment had stronger effects on consumption in Latinos compared with African In 2005 HEP brought in new colleagues from urban planning and received additional financial support to examine associations between aspects of the built .