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Increasing access to supermarkets and places to exercise, along with improving neighborhood safety, are promising strategies to reduce obesity-related health disparities in disadvantaged populations.
For communities with high obesity rates, simply providing information on healthy eating is insufficient. Interventions must prioritize structural changes: increasing the number of supermarkets with affordable produce, ensuring safe, accessible places for physical activity, and improving neighborhood safety to encourage outdoor movement.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Based on the authors’ review, increasing supermarket access, places to exercise, and neighborhood safety may also be promising strategies to reduce obesity-related health disparities.
Why this rating
Based on a systematic review of 45 studies, though heterogeneity prevented meta-analysis.
Source
Built Environments and Obesity in Disadvantaged Populations
Gina S. Lovasi et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews · 2009
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