Spatial Technologies in Obesity Research: Current Applications and Future Promise

Peng Jia; Hong Xue; Li Yin; Alfred Stein; Minqi Wang; Youfa Wang

doi:10.1016/j.tem.2018.12.003

Spatial Technologies in Obesity Research: Current Applications and Future Promise

Peng Jia, Hong Xue, Li Yin, Alfred Stein, Minqi Wang, Youfa Wang

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Abstract

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and remote sensing (RS) are revolutionizing obesity-related research. The primary applications of GIS have included visualizing obesity outcomes and risk factors, constructing obesogenic environmental indicators, and detecting geographical patterns of obesity prevalence and obesogenic environmental features. GPS was mainly used to delineate individual activity space and combined with other devices to measure obesogenic behaviors. RS has been understated for its role as important sources of data about natural and built environments. These spatial technologies, collectively called the 3S technologies, will be useful in measuring more facets of obesogenic environments and individual environmental exposure at finer levels and studying obesity etiology and interventions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	211-223
Number of pages	13
Journal	Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Volume	30
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tem.2018.12.003
State	Published - Mar 2019

Keywords

GIS
GPS
Geographic information systems
Global positioning systems
Obesity
Obesogenic environment
Remote sensing
Spatial analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Endocrinology

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