The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment
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Topic: Risk factors
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 September 2023. doi:DOI: 10.25816/jpx5-1f37
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022). The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment. AIHW, 2022.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment. Canberra: AIHW; 2022.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2022, The relationship between health risk factors and the neighbourhood environment, AIHW, Canberra.
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Our neighbourhood environment influences our health by supporting or hindering our opportunities to engage in physical activity, access nutritious foods and commute to work. This report explores whether the selected factors in our neighbourhood environment are associated with socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity, physical inactivity, insufficient fruit and vegetable consumption and the daily consumption of sugar sweetened drinks.
- ISBN: 978-1-922802-01-9
- DOI: DOI: 10.25816/jpx5-1f37
- Cat. no: PHE 306
- Pages: 48
Findings from this report:
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Prevalence of obesity was lower in more densely populated areas
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Differences in obesity by socioeconomic areas were not associated with proximity to fast-food outlets or supermarkets
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Prevalence of obesity was higher in areas with a longer average commuting distance
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Prevalence of insufficient physical activity was higher in areas with longer average commuting distances