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" Geographies of obesity : "
edited by Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten
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598707
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GBA996846b427926
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Geographies of obesity : : environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic /\ edited by Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten
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| Series Statement
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Geographies of health
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xxii, 331 pages :: illustrations, maps,; 24 cm
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9780754676195
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: 0754676196
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: 9780754699415
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: 0754699412
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : bringing a geographical perspective to understanding the 'obesity epidemic' / Jamie Pearce and Karen Witten -- The emerging obesity epidemic : an introduction / Barry M. Popkin -- Contextual determinants of obesity : an overview / Daniel Kim and Ichiro Kawachi -- Changing food environment and obesity : an overview / Janet Hoek and Rachael McLean -- Understanding the local food environment and obesity / Lukar E. Thornton and Anne M. Kavanagh -- Childhood obesity and the food environment / Mat Walton and Louise Signal -- The role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape / Billie Giles-Corti ... [and others] -- Understanding the local physical activity environment and obesity / Gavin Turrell --
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Childhood obesity, physical activity, and the physical environment / Melody Oliver and Grant Schofield -- Policy responses and obesogenic food environments / Katrina Giskes -- Policy responses and the physical environment / Mylène Riva and Sarah Curtis -- Residential environments and obesity : estimating causal effects / Graham Moon -- Measuring obesogenic environments : representing place in studies of obesity / Dianna Smith ... [and others] -- Recourse to discourse : talk and text as avenues to understand environments of obesity / Robin Kearns -- Conclusions : common themes and emerging questions / Jamie Pearce and Karen Witten
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Obesity-- Epidemiology
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Obesity-- Prevention
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Obesity-- epidemiology
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Obesity-- prevention control
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Environment
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Risk Factors
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Global Health
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| Dewey Classification
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614.5/9398
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RC628.G476 2010
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WD 210G352 2010
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2010 F-779
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Pearce, Jamie
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Witten, Karen
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