Showing papers by "Barbara B. Brown published in 2006"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed the role of the dining area territorial conflicts in inclusionary and exclusionary group behaviors within senior center spaces, and found that strong self-governance of this center allowed participants to lay claim to the entire center, rather than relying on ownership of specific dining seats.
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01 Jan 2006
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: To assess the extent to which neighborhood design, population density, and land-use diversity may be associated with American adults’ growing propensity to be overweight for an entire urban county population in Utah, the Utah Population Data Base is examined.
Abstract: Approximately 66 percent of U.S. adults are overweight (Ogden et al., 2006). Overweight adults are at greater risk of a range of health problems (Billington et al., 2000), including hypertension, diabetes, and several types of cancers (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1998). The Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004) emphasizes the need to understand the environmental factors associated with problems of overweight. In this paper, we examine the roles that neighborhood factors are playing in American adults’ shifting energy balance. Data for this investigation come from the Utah Population Data Base (UPDB). The UPDB contains vast data holdings including records about genealogies, births, deaths, residences, health status, residential address, and height/weight. For these analyses, U.S. Census information on neighborhood characteristics measured at the block-group level has also been linked to the UPDB using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases. This unique linked data set allows us to assess the extent to which neighborhood design, population density, and land-use diversity may be associated with American adults’ growing propensity to be overweight for an entire urban county population in Utah.