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Exploring how socioeconomic status affects neighbourhood environments’ effects on obesity risks: A longitudinal study in Singapore
- Source :
- Landscape and Urban Planning. 226:104450
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Research on how socioeconomic status interacts with neighbourhood characteristics to influence disparities in obesity outcomes is currently limited by residential segregation-induced structural confounding, a lack of empirical studies outside the U.S. and other 'Western' contexts, and an over-reliance on cross-sectional analyses. This study addresses these challenges by examining how socioeconomic status modifies the effect of accumulated exposures to obesogenic neighbourhood environments on children and mothers' BMI, drawing from a longitudinal mother-child birth cohort study in Singapore, an Asian city-state with relatively little residential segregation. We find that increased access to park connectors was associated with a decrease in BMI outcomes for mothers with higher socioeconomic status, but an increase for those with lower socioeconomic status. We also find that increased access to bus stops was associated with an increase in BMIz of children with lower socioeconomic status, but with a decrease in BMIz of children with higher socioeconomic status, while increased access to rail stations was associated with a decrease in BMIz of children with lower socioeconomic status only. Our results suggest that urban interventions might have heterogeneous effects by socioeconomic status.
- Subjects :
- Built environment
Ecology
BUILT-ENVIRONMENT
ACTIVE TRAVEL
UNITED-STATES
ENERGY-COST
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION
FOOD ENVIRONMENT
Structural confounding
Urban Studies
PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY
CAUSAL INFERENCE
SPATIAL EQUITY
Socioeconomic disparities
Obesity
CHILDHOOD OBESITY
5200 Other social sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01692046
- Volume :
- 226
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29775fd4ba160359b76e103266d7cd50