Do neighbourhood environments contribute to ethnic differences in obesity, physical activity and diets?

社区环境是否会导致肥胖、体力活动和饮食方面的种族差异？

• 批准号: MC_EX_G0701943
• 负责人: Seeromanie Harding
• 金额: $ 19.93万
• 依托单位: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MC_EX_G0701943
• 关键词: Do; neighbourhood; environments; contribute; ethnic

Halting the rise in obesity is a policy priority as reflected in a range of government initiatives on diet and physical activity in schools and the community, and on legislation to promote a food classification system to make choosing healthy food easy. Ethnic differences in obesity are well known but the cause is poorly understood. This study seeks to understand if the context of where people live plays a role, whether it affects physical exercise and dietary patterns and their body size. Ethnic minorities tend to live in poor urban areas and these areas might be less well served with facilities for physical activity or might be felt to too unsafe to take up physical exercise. Fast food outlets are known to be more common in deprived areas. Ethnic minorities living in (predominantly White) affluent areas may have better access healthy foods and take more exercise than those living in poor areas. These issues have relevance to policies that aim to help people from different backgrounds to engage in healthy lifestyles and to prevent obesity. For example, if both poor access to recreational facilities and high concentration of South Asians in areas were associated with low physical activity in South Asian women, it would be important to consider culturally appropriate ways of providing these facilities. We will use national surveys that hold data about physical activity, diet, body size on individuals from ethnic minority groups. We will also use a range of data that describe the context of the areas people live in such as the size of ethnic minority populations living in an area, the poverty level of areas, the crime rates in areas, and the number of fast food outlets and gyms and how far these are from where people live. These data will allow us to examine the extent to which the obesity, physical activity and dietary patterns in ethnic minority groups are shaped by the places they live.

遏止肥胖症上升是政府的政策重点，政府在学校和社区推行多项有关饮食和体育活动的措施，以及立法推行食物分类制度，方便市民选择健康食物，均反映了这一点。肥胖的种族差异是众所周知的，但原因却知之甚少。这项研究旨在了解人们居住的环境是否起作用，它是否影响体育锻炼和饮食模式以及他们的体型。少数民族往往生活在贫困的城市地区，这些地区可能没有很好的体育活动设施，或者可能感到太不安全而不能进行体育锻炼。众所周知，快餐店在贫困地区更为常见。生活在富裕地区（主要是白色）的少数民族可能比生活在贫困地区的少数民族更容易获得健康食品，并进行更多的锻炼。这些问题与旨在帮助来自不同背景的人参与健康生活方式和预防肥胖的政策有关。例如，如果难以利用娱乐设施和南亚人高度集中的地区与南亚妇女的身体活动量低有关，则必须考虑以文化上适当的方式提供这些设施。我们将使用全国性的调查，这些调查掌握了少数民族个体的身体活动、饮食和体型数据。我们还将使用一系列描述人们居住地区背景的数据，例如居住在一个地区的少数民族人口的规模，地区的贫困程度，地区的犯罪率，快餐店和健身房的数量以及这些距离人们居住的地方有多远。这些数据将使我们能够研究少数民族群体的肥胖、体育活动和饮食模式在多大程度上受到他们居住的地方的影响。

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• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Social Science and Medicine
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Akinwale, B

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• DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.678615
• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Ethnicity & health
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Bhui K

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• DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.046
• 发表时间: 2012-07-01
• 期刊: SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
• 影响因子: 5.4
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• DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.015
• 发表时间: 2011-05-01
• 期刊: SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Astell-Burt, Thomas;Flowerdew, Robin;Dillon, John F.
• 通讯作者: Dillon, John F.

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• DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2011.645153
• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Ethnicity & health
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Astell-Burt T;Maynard MJ;Lenguerrand E;Harding S
• 通讯作者: Harding S