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Place matters: Mitigating obesity with the person-in-environment approach
Social Work in Health Care, Vol.55, pp.214-230
55
2016
PMID: 26934425
Web of Science ID: WOS:000375606900003
Abstract
Research demonstrates that environmental and community-level variables contribute to obesity. Many of these variables are outside of personal volitional control, such as the characteristics of the places in which people live. Social work’s unique person-in-environment (PIE) approach is an ideal perspective from which to address obesity. This study employs the PIE perspective to examine sprawl, one environmental-level factor. We employed secondary data analysis to examine the effect of sprawl on obesity while controlling for covariates. Region of
residence and sprawl significantly predicted obesity, net of covariates. Given that obesity varies among communities, social workers can respond with PIE-oriented solutions.
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- Title
- Place matters
- Publication Details
- Social Work in Health Care, Vol.55, pp.214-230
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Routledge; Philadelphia
- Series
- 55
- Copyright
- © 2016 Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- WOS:000375606900003; 99380090638206600
- Academic Unit
- Former Faculty; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English