Increasing Economic Resources and Obesity: A Quasi-Experimental Study

增加经济资源与肥胖：一项准实验研究

• 批准号: 8541042
• 负责人: Jessica C Jones-Smith
• 金额: $ 13.68万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-06 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8541042
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; American Indian and Alaska Native; American Indians; Area; Award; Birth; Birth Records; Birth Weight; California; Child; Childhood; Collection; Communities; Community Developments; Community Health; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Economically Deprived Population; Economics; Epidemiology; Etiology; Experimental Designs; Family; Food; Funding; Gestational Age; Goals; Health; Income; Individual; Infant; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Mediating; Mentors; Methods; Mining; Morbidity - disease rate; Natural experiment; Obesity; Observational Study; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Phase; Physical activity; Plague; Policies; Policy Maker; Population; Pregnancy; Price; Public Health; Publications; Reading; Records; Recreation; Research; Research Activity; Research Training; Resources; Risk; Role; Schools; Shock; Social Psychology; Social Welfare; Socioeconomic Status; Staging; Testing; Time; Training; Training Activity; United States; Variant; Vendor; Weight; Weight Gain; Woman; career; ethnic minority population; evidence base; feeding; fitness; health economics; improved; infancy; mortality; nutrition; obesity in children; obesity risk; population health; prevent; psychosocial; racial and ethnic; research study; skills; social; socioeconomics; stem; symposium; theories; tool; tribal member

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and is inversely associated with economic resources in the US. Despite the well-documented correlation between decreased individual- and community-level economic resources and increased obesity, few existing studies have been capable of attributing a causal impact to the effect of economic resources on obesity, particularly among children. Determining the extent to which economic resources are causal antecedents to weight-related health outcomes is vitally important for informing structural approaches for improving population health. I am seeking the Pathway to Independence Award in order to gain the additional training required to accomplish my career goal: to establish an independent pro- gram of research that rigorously investigates socioeconomic inputs to health and productively bridges epidemiology, nutrition, public health, economics, and social psychology. The training portion of this project includes formal courses, directed readings, attendance of scholarly seminars, apprenticeships, and mentored career building activities to gain skills in the following key areas: 1) economics and econometrics, 2) social psycho- logical theories of SES-health relationships, 3) primary data collection and qualitative data analysis. The newly acquired knowledge and skills will be applied in the research component of the project. The research component of this project proposes a quasi-experimental approach to examine the extent to which increased economic resources are associated with maternal weight gain and childhood obesity. I propose that the introduction of casino-style gaming to American Indian tribal lands offers a unique opportunity to determine how an exogenous, sustained influx of economic resources to American Indian communities impacts population health. We will leverage existing geographically-linked vital records and school fitness testing records in combination with space-time variation in casino openings in the state of California to accomplish the following specific aims: 1) Determine the extent to which an exogenous increase in economic resources affects: a) excessive gestational weight gain, b) large-for-gestational-age infant birth weight, and c) child obesity; 2) Assess how economic resources stemming from casinos may affect weight-related health through the collection of formative, qualitative data; 3) Collect quantitative data in order to assess mediating or moderating mechanisms between exogenous economic resources and weight-related health. The training and research activities will feed into publications and conference presentations, and will prepare me to compete successfully for R01 funding during the R00 phase of the project.

描述(申请人提供)：在美国，肥胖是导致发病率和死亡率的主要原因，与经济资源呈负相关。尽管个人和社区层面的经济资源减少与肥胖症增加之间的相关性得到了充分的证明，但现有的研究很少能够将经济资源对肥胖症的影响归因于经济资源的影响，特别是在儿童中。确定经济资源在多大程度上是与体重相关的健康结果的因果关系，对于提供改善人口健康的结构性方法至关重要。我正在寻求独立之路奖，以获得完成我的职业目标所需的额外培训：建立一个独立的研究计划，严格调查社会经济对健康的投入，并富有成效地连接流行病学、营养学、公共卫生、经济学和社会心理学。该项目的培训部分包括正式课程、定向阅读、参加学术研讨会、学徒和有指导的职业发展活动，以获得以下关键领域的技能：1)经济学和计量经济学，2)社会经济和健康关系的社会心理理论，3)主要数据收集和定性数据分析。新获得的知识和技能将应用于该项目的研究部分。该项目的研究部分提出了一种准实验方法，以检查增加的经济资源在多大程度上与母亲体重增加和儿童肥胖有关。我认为，将赌博式的博彩引入美国印第安人部落土地提供了一个独特的机会，可以确定外生的、持续的经济资源流入美国印第安人社区如何影响人口健康。我们将利用现有的地理关联的生命记录和学校健康测试记录，结合加利福尼亚州赌场开业的时空变化来实现以下具体目标：1)确定外源性经济资源增加对以下具体目标的影响程度：a)妊娠体重过度增加，b)大于胎龄的婴儿出生体重，以及c)儿童肥胖；2)通过收集形成性的定性数据，评估赌场产生的经济资源如何影响与体重相关的健康；3)收集量化数据，以评估外源性经济资源与与体重相关的健康之间的中介或调节机制。培训和研究活动将纳入出版物和会议演示文稿，并将为我在项目的R00阶段成功竞争R01资金做好准备。