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A Direct Assessment of “Obesogenic” Built Environments: Challenges and Recommendations

Abstract

This paper outlines the challenges faced during direct built environment (BE) assessments of 42 Canadian communities of various income and urbanization levels. In addition, we recommend options for overcoming such challenges during BE community assessments. Direct BE assessments were performed utilizing two distinct audit methods: (1) modified version of Irvine-Minnesota Inventory in which a paper version of an audit tool was used to assess BE …

Authors

Gasevic D; Vukmirovich I; Yusuf S; Teo K; Chow C; Dagenais G; Lear SA

Journal

Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Vol. 2011, No. 1,

Publisher

Hindawi

Publication Date

2011

DOI

10.1155/2011/161574

ISSN

1687-9805