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Publications

A full list of publications can be found here but below are some recent highlights

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Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood: a birth cohort study

This study investigated associations between change in the food environment and change in measured body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) birth cohort. 

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Spatial variation in immunisation coverage in pregnant women: nationwide and geospatial retrospective cohort study

High maternal influenza and pertussis vaccine coverage is crucial for protecting mothers during pregnancy and their babies in the first weeks of life against severe disease. We examined geospatial variation in maternal immunisation coverage among pregnant women in Aotearoa New Zealand and its health equity implications.

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Towards a better understanding of residential mobility and the environments in which adults reside

This nationwide geospatial study from Aotearoa New Zealand describes the frequency and spatial patterning of residential mobility and examines the interplay between patterns of residential mobility and the environments in which adults reside.

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The environment, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence

We combined accelerometry and global positioning system data to investigate how the environment was related to physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence.

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A city profile: Otautahi Christchurch

Articulates a transdisciplinary story of Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand and provides a summary of the Māori and European settler history of the city and the ramifications of colonisation.

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Physical activity: wider influences and approaches for promotion

A themed issue of Perspectives in Public Health which contains a contemporary focus on some encouraging research on the wider influences of physical activity and novel approaches for promotion.

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Unhealthy environments are related with adverse mental health and psychological distress

Compared to those individuals who reside within the unhealthiest environments, there was a steady reduction in the odds of adverse mental health outcomes and psychological distress as the environment became more health-promoting.

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The good, the bad and the environment

We developed an open access measure of how environmental ‘goods’ such as green spaces and environmental ‘bads’ such as alcohol outlets co-occur at a nationwide area-level for New Zealand.

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Investigating change in the food environment over 10 years

We investigated change in the food environment over 10 years in urban New Zealand using a longitudinal and nationwide geospatial study design. This is one of the first longitudinal studies to measure change in food environment in New Zealand.

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Attendance at a city-wide public health physical activity intervention

We investigated the environmental, behavioural, and sociodemographic determinants of attendance at a city-wide public health physical activity intervention using longitudinal evidence over one year from 185,245 visits in Leeds, UK.

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Sedentary behaviour and measured child adiposity

We investigated what the association between television (TV) viewing and child adiposity was and if parental education and child ethnicity moderated this association.

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