Add Health — Economics & the Built Environment
While the covariation of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) is well recognized, little attention has been paid to discerning exactly how these factors interact to affect health outcomes. Furthermore, we have no understanding of the role played by the physical environment and other contextual variables that are also likely to covary with race/ethnicity.
This study will link additional relevant contextual data with Add Health respondents’ residential locations in Wave I to Wave III and develop and estimate a set of models that relate contextual variables as well as race/ethnicity to physical activity and inactivity and to the likelihood of overweight and obesity in adolescents and young adults.
Principal Investigators: Barry M Popkin and Penny Gordon-Larsen
CPC Fellow Investigator: David Guilkey
Other Current Co-Investigator: Yan Song
Previous Investigators: Linda Adair, CPC; Dianne Ward and Robert McMurray
Funding Sources: NIH, other funding agencies
Funding Period: 06/01/2000–06/30/2010
Affiliated Research Projects
Physical Environment, Dynamics, Inequality and Obesity
Moving Beyond Race: Explaining Health Inequality Manifested as Obesity in the US
Obesity Environment Transition
