CHANGING THE OBESOGENIC ENVIRONMENT: INSIGHTS FROM A CULTURAL ECONOMY OF CAR RELIANCE
CHANGING THE OBESOGENIC ENVIRONMENT: INSIGHTS FROM A CULTURAL ECONOMY OF CAR RELIANCE
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改变肥胖环境：来自汽车依赖文化经济的见解
DOI：
10.1016/j.trd.2004.09.003
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
J. Dixon
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作者：
Sarah Hinde;J. Dixon
在澳大利亚，肥胖率的上升是一个主要的公共卫生问题，“致胖环境”越来越被认为是解决这一问题的干预措施的最适当目标。最近的研究已经确定，汽车的使用是导致肥胖环境的一个潜在因素;然而，很少有人讨论支持这一趋势的社会过程。本文有双重目的：第一，描述了一种研究方法，研究肥胖的环境，通过审查社会趋势的文化和经济层面，改善了以前的尝试;第二，报告的结果，应用该方法在澳大利亚的汽车依赖。研究结果解释了汽车使用如何以及为什么在绝大多数澳大利亚人的日常生活中根深蒂固，以至于澳大利亚现在是一个依赖汽车的社会。此外，理论上知情的审计使我们能够描述连接环境特征的潜在途径，例如汽车依赖，以促进或破坏健康的做法。我们对社会过程的强调为研究构成肥胖环境的社会趋势提供了一种有用的方法，并应激发进一步的辩论，研究和思考公共卫生政策的替代方式。
The rising rate of obesity is a major public health problem in Australia and the ‘obesogenic environment’ is increasingly acknowledged as the most appropriate target for interventions addressing the problem. Recent research has identified car use as a potential contributor to the obesogenic environment; however, there has been little discussion of the social processes that underpin this trend. This article has a dual purpose: first, to describe a research approach to the study of obesogenic environments that improves on previous attempts by reviewing the cultural and economic dimensions of a social trend; and second, to report on the results of applying the approach to car reliance in Australia. The results provide an explanation for how and why car use has become entrenched in the daily lives of the vast majority of Australians to the point that Australia is now a car-reliant society. Moreover, the theoretically informed audit allows us to describe potential pathways linking features of the environment, such as car reliance, to health promoting or damaging practices. Our emphasis on social processes provides a useful approach for studying the social trends that make up the obesogenic environment, and should stimulate further debate, research and alternative ways of thinking about public health policy.