TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial Technologies in Obesity Research
T2 - Current Applications and Future Promise
AU - Jia, P.
AU - Xue, H.
AU - Yin, L.
AU - Stein, A.
AU - Wang, Minqi
AU - Wang, Youfa
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
KW - 22/4 OA procedure
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tem.2018.12.003
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://library.itc.utwente.nl/login/2019/isi/jia_spat.pdf
U2 - 10.1016/j.tem.2018.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tem.2018.12.003
M3 - Article
SN - 1043-2760
VL - 30
SP - 211
EP - 223
JO - Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
JF - Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
IS - 3
ER -
