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Author Archives: Built Environment and Health
Neighborhood Access to park space and BMI
Our recent article in the American Journal of Health Promotion explores the association between New York City resident’s body mass index (BMI) and their access to neighborhood parks, park quality, and park physical activity resources. Our analyses show that higher … Continue reading
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Recent Research Papers
Several new papers from the group have come out in the past several months. In the Journal of Urban Health we published a paper showing that New Yorker’s engagement in active transport, either walking or cycling, is positively associated with … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Methods, Safety, Socioeconomic status, Walkability
Tagged active transport, asthma, prostate cancer, tree canopy, walkability
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Video from the NIEHS Obesity Forum on YouTube
A video feed from the NIEHS Virtual Obesity Forum has been posted to YouTube. Questions for the discussion panel were sent into NIEHS by email, text and Twitter. The discussion covers a lot of topics related to obesity including, neighborhood … Continue reading
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NY Post reported on our article about Neighborhood Attractiveness and BMI
Sunday’s NY Post included an article entitled “City Waist Lands” about our work on neighborhood attractiveness and BMI in New York City. The research paper was originally published in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Safety
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20% of New York City Public School Children were Obese during the 2007-08 School Year
Our analyses of data from 624,204 public school children (kindergarten through 12th grade) who took part in the 2007–2008 New York City Fitnessgram Program show that prevalence of obesity was 20.3%, and the prevalence of overweight was 17.6%. This research … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, FITNESSGRAM, Schools
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NIEHS Virtual Forum: Childhood Obesity and the Environment
Dr. Rundle will be speaking at the NIEHS Virtual Forum: Childhood Obesity and the Environment on Nov 29th at 2pm (http://bit.ly/obesityforum). Dr. Rundle will be answering questions about childhood obesity and exposures to air pollution and phthalates, you can read … Continue reading
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More on the TEDMED Great Challenges program
The Mailman School of Public Health web site just posted more information about the TEDMED Great Challenges Program and a Q&A about physical activity.
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TEDMED Great Challenges: Promoting Active Lifestyles
Dr. Rundle is part of the TEDMED Great Challenges Team for the Challenge of Promoting Active Lifestyles. Through the Great Challenges Program TEDMED plans to start a series of conversations on how can we better understand complex, widespread health and … Continue reading
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High Resolution Neighborhood Walkability Measures
For our work on neighborhood walkability and physical activity and obesity, we are working on developing very high resolution data on walkability for New York City using our Neighborhood Walkability Index. We previously posted a Census tract level map of … Continue reading
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Masters Student’s Projects
Each year several Masters in Public Health students do there practicums working on BEH projects. This year we had Christopher “Toph” Allen, Nicolia Eldred-Skemp and Tanya Kaufman working with us. Toph assessed the accuracy of cell-phone based GPS systems for … Continue reading
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