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Area-Level Walkability And The Geographic Distribution Of High Body Mass In Sydney, Australia: A Spatial Analysis Using The 45 And Up Study, Darren J. Mayne, Geoffrey Morgan, Bin Jalaludin, Adrian E. Bauman
Area-Level Walkability And The Geographic Distribution Of High Body Mass In Sydney, Australia: A Spatial Analysis Using The 45 And Up Study, Darren J. Mayne, Geoffrey Morgan, Bin Jalaludin, Adrian E. Bauman
Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
Improving the walkability of built environments to promote healthy lifestyles and reduce high body mass is increasingly considered in regional development plans. Walkability indexes have the potential to inform, benchmark and monitor these plans if they are associated with variation in body mass outcomes at spatial scales used for health and urban planning. We assessed relationships between area-level walkability and prevalence and geographic variation in overweight and obesity using an Australian population-based cohort comprising 92,157 Sydney respondents to the 45 and Up Study baseline survey between January 2006 and April 2009. Individual-level data on overweight and obesity were aggregated to …
Children's Exposure To Television Food Advertising Contributes To Strong Brand Attachments, Bridget Kelly, Emma J. Boyland, Lesley King, Adrian E. Bauman, Kathy Chapman, Clare Hughes
Children's Exposure To Television Food Advertising Contributes To Strong Brand Attachments, Bridget Kelly, Emma J. Boyland, Lesley King, Adrian E. Bauman, Kathy Chapman, Clare Hughes
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing is one factor contributing to childhood obesity. The impact of marketing on children's weight likely occurs via a cascade pathway, through influences on children's food brand awareness, emotional responses, purchasing and consumption. Thus, building emotional attachments to brands is a major marketing imperative. This study explored Australian children's emotional attachments to food and drink brands and compared the strength of these attachments to their food marketing exposure, using television viewing as a proxy indicator. A cross-sectional face-to-face survey was conducted with 282 Australian children (8-12 years). Children were asked to indicate their agreement/disagreement with …
Recreational Ecology: A Review Of Research And Gap Analysis, Daminda Sumanapala, Isabelle D. Wolf
Recreational Ecology: A Review Of Research And Gap Analysis, Daminda Sumanapala, Isabelle D. Wolf
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Recreational ecology is an internationally evolving research field addressing the high demand for nature-based tourism and recreation, and its environmental impacts. This review aimed to analyze the research effort of recreational ecology studies published in four renowned journals in the field, the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Management, the Journal of Environmental Management, and Environmental Management. Between 1976 and 2017, this review identified 145 papers focused on recreational ecology. The majority of research investigated the direct impacts of terrestrial activities in protected areas, in particular the impacts of walking and hiking on vegetation and trail conditions, and the impacts of …
How Accurately Do Behavioural Observations Predict Reproductive Success In Free-Ranging Lizards?, Mats M. Olsson, Tonia S. Schwartz, Erik Wapstra, Richard Shine
How Accurately Do Behavioural Observations Predict Reproductive Success In Free-Ranging Lizards?, Mats M. Olsson, Tonia S. Schwartz, Erik Wapstra, Richard Shine
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
Behavioural ecologists often use data on patterns of male - female association to infer reproductive success of free-ranging animals. For example, a male seen with several females during the mating season is predicted to father more offspring than a male not seen with any females. We explored the putative correlation between this behaviour and actual paternity (as revealed by microsatellite data) from a long-term study on sand lizards (Lacerta agilis), including behavioural observations of 574 adult males and 289 adult females, and paternity assignment of more than 2500 offspring during 1998 - 2007. The number of males that contributed paternity …
Clean Bill Of Health? Towards An Understanding Of Health Risks Posed By Urban Ibis, Kimberly L. Maute, Cameron Webb, David Phalen, John Martin, Jody Hobson-Peters, Richard E. Major, Kris French
Clean Bill Of Health? Towards An Understanding Of Health Risks Posed By Urban Ibis, Kimberly L. Maute, Cameron Webb, David Phalen, John Martin, Jody Hobson-Peters, Richard E. Major, Kris French
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
Urban waterbirds are considered both serious pests and inspiring wildlife. Ibis and gulls are often vilified due to their dirty appearance and disruption of outdoor activities, while ducks are affectionately fed in parks. However, all waterbirds are potential reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens. In Sydney (Australia), we documented the relative prevalence of arbovirus exposure and Salmonella shedding in 72 Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) at 2 urban sites in 2003 during a management cull and in 2015 as a response to increased public interest. We sampled during a period of peak human arbovirus and Salmonella infection risk in late summer and …