Food and physical activity built environments. A database from the Southern Cone of Latin America

An obesogenic (obesity-promoting) environment is one that promotes higher dietary energy intakes and sedentary behaviors, while limiting opportunities or incentives for active living (including active transport and leisure-time physical activity). Built environments influence obesity through both food and physical activity pathways, and may contribute to the social gradient in obesity and related-NCD outcomes.
This dataset contains information about food and physical activity attributes of the built environment from four cities of the Southern Cone of Latin America: Marcos Paz and Bariloche (Argentina), Temuco (Chile) and Canelones-Barros Blancos (Uruguay). Standardized community walks in representative neighborhoods were conducted for direct observation of the built environment in each city .
The adapted instruments based on the following observation tools were used: EPOCH-1 to assess the streets, sidewalks and surrounding; POS to characterize the public open spaces; and NEMS-S to evaluate the food stores and restaurants.
Published files:
- Metadata, contains descriptive information of each file
- Protocol
- CRFs
- Dataset (format csv)
- Data dictionary

肥胖促进型环境是指那些推动更高的膳食能量摄入和久坐行为的场所，同时限制积极参与生活的机会或激励（包括主动交通和休闲时间体育活动）。建成环境通过食物和身体活动路径影响肥胖，并可能加剧肥胖及其相关非传染性疾病（NCD）的社会梯度。本数据集包含来自拉丁美洲南部圆锥形地区四个城市的建成环境中食物和身体活动属性信息：阿根廷的马克斯帕斯和巴里洛切，智利的特木科，以及乌拉圭的卡内隆斯-巴拉奥斯。在每个城市，均在代表性社区中进行了标准化社区步行，以直接观察建成环境。所使用的基于以下观察工具的改编仪器包括：EPOCH-1用于评估街道、人行道及其周边环境；POS用于表征公共开放空间；NEMS-S用于评估食品店和餐馆。发布文件包括：- 元数据，包含每个文件的描述性信息；- 协议；- CRFs；- 数据集（格式为csv）；- 数据字典。