- Title
- How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity Framework as a mechanism for exploration
- Creator
- Nieuwendyk, L. M.; Belon, A. P.; Vallianatos, H.; Raine, K. D.; Schopflocher, D.; Spence, J. C.; Plotnikoff, R. C.; Nykiforuk, C. I.
- Relation
- Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada Vol. 36, Issue 9, p. 175-184
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.36.9.01
- Publisher
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Introduction: Overweight and obesity are influenced by a complex interplay of individual and environmental factors that affect physical activity and healthy eating. Nevertheless, little has been reported on people's perceptions of those factors. Addressing this critical gap and community partner needs, this study explored how people perceived the influence of micro- and macroenvironmental factors on physical activity and healthy eating. Methods: Community partners wanted the study results in a format that would be readily and easily used by local decision makers. We used photovoice to engage 35 community members across four municipalities in Alberta, Canada, and to share their narratives about their physical activity and healthy eating. A combination of inductive and deductive analysis categorized data by environmental level (micro vs. macro) and type (physical, political, economic, and sociocultural), guided by the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity Framework. Results: Participants conceptualized health-influencing factors more broadly than physical activity and healthy eating to include "community social health." Participants spoke most often about the influence of the microenvironment (n = 792 ANGELO Framework coding tallies) on their physical activity, healthy eating and community social health in comparison to the macroenvironment (n = 93). Photovoice results provided a visual narrative to community partners and decision makers about how people's ability to make healthy choices can be limited by macroenvironmental forces beyond their control. Conclusion: Focussing future research on macro- and microenvironmental influences and localized community social health can inform practice by providing strategies on how to implement healthy changes within communities, while ensuring that research and interventions echo diverse people's perceptions.
- Subject
- environment; photovoice; ANGELO Framework; physical activity; eating behaviour; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326339
- Identifier
- uon:25410
- Identifier
- ISSN:2368-738X
- Rights
- © All rights reserved. How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity Framework as a mechanism for exploration. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: September 2016, Volume 36, No.9. Public Health Agency of Canada. Adapted and reproduced with permission from the Minister of Health, 2018.
- Language
- eng
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