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Call for papers: New horizons in geospatial lifestyle and food environment research

Healthy lifestyle

Edited by Maged N. Kamel Boulos
International Journal of Health Geographics

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Advances in lifestyle sensing, geo-tagged big data and related technologies are helping us better understand the highly complex, multifactorial nature of overweight, obesity (OO) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), in our quest to design more effective public health interventions for the control and prevention of these conditions. This Int J Health Geogr collection showcases innovations in geospatial lifestyle and food environment research and practice in the context of OO and T2D, going beyond conventional research study designs and approaches in this field.

This collection will undergo the journal’s normal peer review process and be subject to an article-processing charge. Manuscripts should be formatted according to our submission guidelines and submitted via the online submission system. During submission, please make sure that the correct collection title is chosen at the 'Additional Information' step. Please also indicate clearly in the covering letter that the manuscript is to be considered for this collection.

This is an open-ended series and articles will be accepted for on-going publication. For further information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at International Journal of Health Geographics.

  1. The escalating trend of obesity in Malaysia is surmounting, and the lack of evidence on the environmental influence on obesity is untenable. Obesogenic environmental factors often emerge as a result of shared ...

    Authors: Kimberly Yuin Y’ng Wong, Foong Ming Moy, Aziz Shafie and Sanjay Rampal
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2024 23:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Greenness exposure has been associated with many health benefits, for example through the pathway of providing opportunities for physical activity (PA). Beside the limited body of longitudinal research, most s...

    Authors: Juliette F. E. van Beek, Laurent Malisoux, Olivier Klein, Torsten Bohn, Marion Tharrey, Frank J. Van Lenthe, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Martin Dijst and Camille Perchoux
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2024 23:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Childrens’ outdoor active play is an important part of their development. Play behaviour can be predicted by a variety of physical and social environmental features. Some of these features are difficult to mea...

    Authors: Randy Boyes, William Pickett, Ian Janssen, David Swanlund, Nadine Schuurman, Louise Masse, Christina Han and Mariana Brussoni
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Communities in the United States (US) exist on a continuum of urbanicity, which may inform how individuals interact with their food environment, and thus modify the relationship between food access and dietary...

    Authors: Yasemin Algur, Pasquale E. Rummo, Tara P. McAlexander, S. Shanika A. De Silva, Gina S. Lovasi, Suzanne E. Judd, Victoria Ryan, Gargya Malla, Alain K. Koyama, David C. Lee, Lorna E. Thorpe and Leslie A. McClure
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. The exponential growth of location-based social media (LBSM) data has ushered in novel prospects for investigating the urban food environment in health geography research. However, previous studies have primar...

    Authors: Jue Wang, Gyoorie Kim and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. National prevalence could mask subnational heterogeneity in disease occurrence, and disease mapping is an important tool to illustrate the spatial pattern of disease. However, there is limited information on t...

    Authors: Maria Safura Mohamad, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and Christel Faes
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:14
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  7. Urban travel exposes people to a range of environmental qualities with significant health and wellbeing impacts. Nevertheless, the understanding of travel-related environmental exposure has remained limited. H...

    Authors: Elias Willberg, Age Poom, Joose Helle and Tuuli Toivonen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Obesity is a serious public health problem. Existing research has shown a strong association between obesity and an individual’s diet and physical activity. If we extend such an association to the neighborhood...

    Authors: Ryan Zhenqi Zhou, Yingjie Hu, Jill N. Tirabassi, Yue Ma and Zhen Xu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. There has been an increased focus on active transport, but the measurement of active transport is still difficult and error-prone. Sensor data have been used to predict active transport. While heart rate data ...

    Authors: Santosh Giri, Ruben Brondeel, Tarik El Aarbaoui and Basile Chaix
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Food is not equitably available. Deficiencies and generalizations limit national datasets, food security assessments, and interventions. Additional neighborhood level studies are needed to develop a scalable a...

    Authors: Nicole S. Hutton, George McLeod, Thomas R. Allen, Christopher Davis, Alexandra Garnand, Heather Richter, Prachi P. Chavan, Leslie Hoglund, Jill Comess, Matthew Herman, Brian Martin and Cynthia Romero
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. A better understanding of lifestyle behaviours of children < 7 years and the relation with childhood overweight is needed. The aim of our prospective study was to examine how lifestyle patterns in young childr...

    Authors: Rikstje Wiersma, Richard H. Rijnks, Gianni Bocca, H. Marike Boezen, Esther Hartman and Eva Corpeleijn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Geographic information systems (GIS) are often used to examine the association between both physical activity and nutrition environments, and children’s health. It is often assumed that geospatial datasets are...

    Authors: Jesse Whitehead, Melody Smith, Yvonne Anderson, Yijun Zhang, Stephanie Wu, Shreya Maharaj and Niamh Donnellan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2021 20:37
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Obesity remains one of the most challenging public health issues of our modern time. Despite the face validity of claims for influence, studies on the causes of obesity have reported the influence of the food ...

    Authors: Windi Lameck Marwa, Duncan Radley, Samantha Davis, James McKenna and Claire Griffiths
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2021 20:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Independent mobility (IM) provides young people with many opportunities to increase their autonomy and physical activity (PA). This study aimed to analyse whether the parent’s PA, active commuting to work and ...

    Authors: F. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, P. Gálvez-Fernández, F. J. Huertas-Delgado, M. J. Aranda-Balboa, R. G. Saucedo-Araujo and M. Herrador-Colmenero
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2021 20:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Accounting for the co-occurrence of multiple environmental influences is a more accurate reflection of population exposure than considering isolated influences, aiding in understanding the complex interactions...

    Authors: Lukas Marek, Matthew Hobbs, Jesse Wiki, Simon Kingham and Malcolm Campbell
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2021 20:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. The public health burden caused by overweight, obesity (OO) and type-2 diabetes (T2D) is very significant and continues to rise worldwide. The causation of OO and T2D is complex and highly multifactorial rathe...

    Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos and Keumseok Koh
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2021 20:12
    Content type: Editorial Published on: