Neighborhood Greenness and 2-Year Changes in Body Mass Index of Children and Youth

December, 2008
Janice F. Bell
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Jeffrey S. Wilson
Department of Geography, Indiana University–Purdue University
Gilbert C. Liu
Indiana University School of Medicine
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 35, no. 6, pages 547–553, 7 pp., The American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, December, 2008
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Greenness and 2-Year Changes in Body Mass Index

—Available studies of the built environment and the BMI of children and youth suggest a contemporaneous association with neighborhood greenness in neighborhoods with high population density. The current study tests whether greenness and residential density are independently associated with 2-year changes in the BMI of children and youth.

Keywords: population density, greenness and residential density, BMI, preventing child obesity, physical activity