Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "built environment"

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    • Environment and Obesity in the National Children's Study 

      Trasande, Leonardo; Cronk, Chris; Durkin, Maureen; Weiss, Marianne; Schoeller, Dale A.; Gall, Elizabeth A.; Hewitt, Jeanne B.; Carrel, Aaron L.; Landrigan, Philip J.; Gillman, Matthew William (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Objective: In this review we describe the approach taken by the National Children’s Study (NCS), a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children, to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development ...

    • Neighborhood Self-Selection: The Role of Pre-Move Health Factors on the Built and Socioeconomic Environment 

      James, Peter; Hart, Jaime E.; Arcaya, Mariana C.; Feskanich, Diane; Laden, Francine; Subramanian, S.V. (MDPI, 2015)
      Residential self-selection bias is a concern in studies of neighborhoods and health. This bias results from health behaviors predicting neighborhood choice. To quantify this bias, we examined associations between pre-move ...