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Lukar E. Thornton
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Open AccessOperationalising the 20-minute neighbourhood
Recent rapid growth in urban areas and the desire to create liveable neighbourhoods has brought about a renewed interest in planning for compact cities, with concepts like the 20-minute neighbourhood (20MN) be...
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Open AccessThe use and misuse of ratio and proportion exposure measures in food environment research
The food stores within residential environments are increasingly investigated as a possible mechanism driving food behaviours and health outcomes. Whilst increased emphasis is being placed on the type of study...
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Open AccessMethods for accounting for neighbourhood self-selection in physical activity and dietary behaviour research: a systematic review
Self-selection into residential neighbourhoods is a widely acknowledged, but under-studied problem in research investigating neighbourhood influences on physical activity and diet. Failure to handle neighbourh...
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Open AccessWhere do people purchase food? A novel approach to investigating food purchasing locations
Studies exploring associations between food environments and food purchasing behaviours have been limited by the absence of data on where food purchases occur. Determining where food purchases occur relative t...
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Open AccessNeighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and fruit and vegetable consumption: a seven countries comparison
Low fruit and vegetable consumption is a risk factor for poor health. Studies have shown consumption varies across neighbourhoods, with lower intakes in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, findings are inco...
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Open AccessImproving perceptions of healthy food affordability: results from a pilot intervention
Despite strong empirical support for the association between perceived food affordability and dietary intake amongst families with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP), there is limited evidence of the most ef...
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Open AccessDoes the availability of snack foods in supermarkets vary internationally?
Cross-country differences in dietary behaviours and obesity rates have been previously reported. Consumption of energy-dense snack foods and soft drinks are implicated as contributing to weight gain, however l...
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Open AccessDoes parkland influence walking? The relationship between area of parkland and walking trips in Melbourne, Australia
Using two different measures of park area, at three buffer distances, we sought to investigate the ways in which park area and proximity to parks, are related to the frequency of walking (for all purposes) in ...
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Open AccessDoes the choice of neighbourhood supermarket access measure influence associations with individual-level fruit and vegetable consumption? A case study from Glasgow
Previous studies have provided mixed evidence with regards to associations between food store access and dietary outcomes. This study examines the most commonly applied measures of locational access to assess ...
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Open AccessUsing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess the role of the built environment in influencing obesity: a glossary
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 Geographi...
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Open AccessFast food purchasing and access to fast food restaurants: a multilevel analysis of VicLANES
While previous research on fast food access and purchasing has not found evidence of an association, these studies have had methodological problems including aggregation error, lack of specificity between the ...
