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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4119.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the importance of the relationship between the built environment and physical activity. This session will expand the discussion to include other major health-related behaviors and health conditions. In the United States, the leading "actual" causes of death - i.e. behaviors underlying the leading medical causes of death - are smoking, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, and alcohol consumption. All of these behaviors are heavily influenced by the built environment. This session will present a framework for considering how the built environment influences behavior and health, will synthesize results of research across these behaviors to demonstrate common principles, and will provide specific examples of how the built environment influences diet, alcohol consumption, and health disparities. The session will end with a discussion of how the built environment can be changed in ways to reduce the prevalence of these unhealthy behaviors and to promote health. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) To understand how the built environment influences important health behaviors beyond physical activity; 2) to develop a theoretical framework for understanding environmental influences on behaviors and health; 3)to understand, as important examples of underlying principles, the effects of the built environment on alcohol use, alcohol-related health outcomes, diet, diet-related health outcomes, and racial/socioeconomic health disparities; 4) to describe specific changes to the built environment which would reduce key unhealthy behaviors and enhance healthy behaviors; and 5) to describe barriers and opportunities to implement health-promoting changes to the built environment. | |||
| Neal L. Rosenblatt, MS Allen Dearry, PhD Karla Armenti, ScD, MS Peter J. Ashley, DrPH | |||
| Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH | |||
| Improving Health by Fixing Our Everyday World: Environmental Approaches to Preventing the Leading Causes of Death Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH, Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH | |||
| Alcohol—availability, placement, zoning, and density: How alcohol outlets influence health Richard Scribner, MD, MPH | |||
| A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Role of "Food Environments" in Shaping Dietary Choices Donald Diego Rose, PhD, Heather Hartline-Grafton, MPH, RD | |||
| Broken Windows and Health: Housing, Collective Efficacy, and Health Outcomes Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH | |||
| Environment Can Be Changed: Practical Approaches in a Political World Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH, Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Epidemiology; Food and Nutrition; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA