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| Title |
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess the role of the built environment in influencing obesity: a glossary
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| Published in |
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, July 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1479-5868-8-71 |
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| Authors |
Lukar E Thornton, Jamie R Pearce, Anne M Kavanagh |
| Abstract |
Features of the built environment are increasingly being recognised as potentially important determinants of obesity. This has come about, in part, because of advances in methodological tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS has made the procurement of data related to the built environment easier and given researchers the flexibility to create a new generation of environmental exposure measures such as the travel time to the nearest supermarket or calculations of the amount of neighbourhood greenspace. Given the rapid advances in the availability of GIS data and the relative ease of use of GIS software, a glossary on the use of GIS to assess the built environment is timely. As a case study, we draw on aspects the food and physical activity environments as they might apply to obesity, to define key GIS terms related to data collection, concepts, and the measurement of environmental features. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 30% |
| Unknown | 7 | 70% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 428 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 4 | <1% |
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 411 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 97 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 79 | 18% |
| Researcher | 46 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 5% |
| Other | 63 | 15% |
| Unknown | 82 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 61 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 53 | 12% |
| Environmental Science | 32 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 6% |
| Sports and Recreations | 26 | 6% |
| Other | 124 | 29% |
| Unknown | 106 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 December 2022.
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