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Trends in exposure to television food advertisements among children and adolescents in the United StatesLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Ave, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:794-802. 2010..To examine the trends in food advertising seen by American children and adolescents...
Assessing the potential effectiveness of food and beverage taxes and subsidies for improving public health: a systematic review of prices, demand and body weight outcomesL M Powell
Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Obes Rev 14:110-28. 2013..Pricing instruments should continue to be considered and evaluated as potential policy instruments to address public health risks...- Fast-food and full-service restaurant consumption among children and adolescents: effect on energy, beverage, and nutrient intakeLisa M Powell
Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
JAMA Pediatr 167:14-20. 2013..To examine the effect of fast-food and full-service restaurant consumption on total energy intake, dietary indicators, and beverage consumption... - Energy intake from restaurants: demographics and socioeconomics, 2003-2008Lisa M Powell
Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Prev Med 43:498-504. 2012..Eating food away from home and restaurant consumption have increased over the past few decades... - Ethnic disparities in adolescent body mass index in the United States: the role of parental socioeconomic status and economic contextual factorsLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Soc Sci Med 75:469-76. 2012..A significantly large portion of the ethnic BMI gap, however, remained unexplained between black and white female adolescents... - Economic instruments for obesity prevention: results of a scoping review and modified Delphi surveyGuy E J Faulkner
Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto, 55 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON M5S2W6, Canada
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:109. 2011..The purpose of this study was to synthesize existing evidence regarding the impact of economic policies targeting obesity and its causal behaviours (diet, physical activity), and to make specific recommendations for the Canadian context... - Food prices and obesity: evidence and policy implications for taxes and subsidiesLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy and Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Milbank Q 87:229-57. 2009.... - Associations between state-level soda taxes and adolescent body mass indexLisa M Powell
Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:S57-63. 2009..Soft drink consumption has been linked with higher energy intake, obesity, and poorer health. Fiscal pricing policies such as soda taxes may lower soda consumption and, in turn, reduce weight among U.S. adolescents... - Fast food costs and adolescent body mass index: evidence from panel dataLisa M Powell
Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Health Econ 28:963-70. 2009..There is evidence that the weight of teens in low- to middle-socioeconomic status families is most sensitive to fast food prices... - Economic contextual factors, food consumption, and obesity among U.S. adolescentsLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Nutr 140:1175-80. 2010.... - The costs of food at home and away from home and consumption patterns among U.S. adolescentsLisa M Powell
Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Adolesc Health 48:20-6. 2011.... - Field validation of secondary commercial data sources on the retail food outlet environment in the U.SLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Road, M C 275, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Health Place 17:1122-31. 2011..The study also found that agreement levels for some outlet types differed by tract characteristics. Commercial databases must be used with caution as substitutes for on the ground data collection... - Trends in the nutritional content of television food advertisements seen by children in the United States: analyses by age, food categories, and companiesLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Ave, Room 558, M C 275, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:1078-86. 2011..To examine trends in children's exposure to food-related advertising on television by age, product category, and company... - Food prices, access to food outlets and child weightLisa M Powell
Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Rd, Rm 558, MC 275, Chicago, IL 60608, United States
Econ Hum Biol 7:64-72. 2009..The estimated fruit and vegetable and fast food price elasticities were 0.14 and -0.26, respectively, among low-income children and 0.09 and -0.13, respectively, among children with less educated mothers... 
The importance of peer effects, cigarette prices and tobacco control policies for youth smoking behaviorLisa M Powell
University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Road, Room 558, M C 275, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Health Econ 24:950-68. 2005..5 percentage points. The results suggest that there is a potential for social multiplier effects with respect to any exogenous change in cigarette taxes or tobacco control policies...- Exposure to food advertising on television among US childrenLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Ave, Room 558, Mail Code 275, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:553-60. 2007..To examine exposure to food advertising on television (TV) among children aged 2 through 11 years... - Nutritional content of television food advertisements seen by children and adolescents in the United StatesLisa M Powell
University of Illinois, Institute for Health Research and Policy, 1747 W Roosevelt Rd, Room 558, MC 275, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Pediatrics 120:576-83. 2007..In light of the high rates of child and adolescent obesity, we examined the nutritional content of food advertising seen by American children and adolescents... - Availability of physical activity-related facilities and neighborhood demographic and socioeconomic characteristics: a national studyLisa M Powell
Department of Economics and the Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois, Chicago 60608, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1676-80. 2006..We examined associations between neighborhood demographic characteristics and the availability of commercial physical activity-related outlets by zip code across the United States... - The availability of fast-food and full-service restaurants in the United States: associations with neighborhood characteristicsLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60305, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S240-5. 2007..Parallel to the rising obesity epidemic, food consumption patterns and household expenditures show a marked upward trend in total energy intake derived from away-from-home sources... - Food store availability and neighborhood characteristics in the United StatesLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Prev Med 44:189-95. 2007..This study provides a multivariate analysis of the availability of food store outlets in the US and associations with neighborhood characteristics on race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES)... - Adolescent exposure to food advertising on televisionLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60305, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S251-6. 2007..Television viewing is hypothesized to contribute to obesity among children and adolescents through several mechanisms that include the displacement of physical activity, snacking while watching TV, and the influence of food advertising... - Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass indexLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60305, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S301-7. 2007..Environmental factors such as the availability of local-area food stores may be important contributors to the increasing rate of obesity among U.S. adolescents... - The availability of local-area commercial physical activity-related facilities and physical activity among adolescentsLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S292-300. 2007..A significant number of American youth do not participate in sufficient levels of physical activity... - Fruit and vegetable availability and selection: federal food package revisions, 2009Shannon N Zenk
Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Prev Med 43:423-8. 2012..S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages in 2009 had the potential to expand neighborhood FV availability... - Access to fast food and food prices: relationship with fruit and vegetable consumption and overweight among adolescentsLisa M Powell
Department of Economics, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res 17:23-48. 2007.... - Weight status among adolescents in States that govern competitive food nutrition contentDaniel R Taber
Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Pediatrics 130:437-44. 2012..To determine if state laws regulating nutrition content of foods and beverages sold outside of federal school meal programs ("competitive foods") are associated with lower adolescent weight gain... - Price, availability, and youth obesity: evidence from Bridging the GapFrank J Chaloupka
Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Blvd, Room 558, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A93. 2009..They also have found that healthier environments are associated with more fruit and vegetable consumption, more physical activity, lower body mass index, and reduced likelihood of obesity among youth... - Food prices and fruit and vegetable consumption among young American adultsLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Health Place 15:1064-70. 2009..Fiscal policy instruments such as FV subsidies may help to increase FV intake, particularly among young adults of lower socioeconomic status... - Public health obesity-related TV advertising: lessons learned from tobaccoSherry L Emery
Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S257-63. 2007.... - Missed opportunities: local health departments as providers of obesity prevention programs for adolescentsSandy J Slater
University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Health Research and Policy, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S246-50. 2007..This study examined the availability of local health department programs related to youth healthy eating, obesity control, and physical activity... - Banning all sugar-sweetened beverages in middle schools: reduction of in-school access and purchasing but not overall consumptionDaniel R Taber
Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 166:256-62. 2012..To determine whether state policies that regulate beverages in schools are associated with reduced in-school access and purchase of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and reduced consumption of SSBs (in and out of school) among adolescents... - The association between community physical activity settings and youth physical activity, obesity, and body mass indexSandy J Slater
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Adolesc Health 47:496-503. 2010.... - Participation in the national school lunch program: importance of school-level and neighborhood contextual factorsDonka M Mirtcheva
Department of Economics, School of Business, The College of New Jersey, Business Building, 114, P O Box 7718, 2000 Pennington Rd, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA
J Sch Health 79:485-94. 2009..S. Department of Agriculture National School Lunch Program (NSLP)... - Availability of commercial physical activity facilities and physical activity outside of school among high school studentsZeynep Isgor
Dept of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
J Phys Act Health 8:707-15. 2011..Environmental factors may play an important role in the determination of physical activity behaviors... - US secondary schools and food outletsShannon N Zenk
College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Health Place 14:336-46. 2008..Furthermore, urban neighborhoods with a high school versus no secondary school have more food outlets. Curbing the obesity epidemic among adolescents requires addressing the food environment surrounding schools... - Fast food consumption and food prices: evidence from panel data on 5th and 8th grade childrenTamkeen Khan
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, UH725 M C144, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
J Obes 2012:857697. 2012.... - Weight misperceptions and racial and ethnic disparities in adolescent female body mass indexRamona C Krauss
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
J Obes 2012:205393. 2012..Education regarding identification and interpretation of weight status may play an important role to help reduce the incidence and racial disparity of female adolescent obesity... - The association of fast food, fruit and vegetable prices with dietary intakes among US adults: is there modification by family income?May A Beydoun
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Soc Sci Med 66:2218-29. 2008.... - Community-based youth tobacco control interventions: cost effectiveness of the Full Court Press projectHana Ross
International Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia 30329 4251, USA
Appl Health Econ Health Policy 5:167-76. 2006..We evaluated the impact of a community-based tobacco control project that was implemented in the city of Tucson, Arizona, USA, between 1996 and 2001... - Community and school drug prevention strategy prevalence: differential effects by setting and substanceCurtis J VanderWaal
Institute for Prevention of Addictions, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 0211, USA
J Prim Prev 26:299-320. 2005..This is a strategy that works, but the effects are likely to vary by setting, level of supervision, substance, and program implementation...
Research Grants
- Economic Contextual Influences on Population Diet and ObesityLisa Powell; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..
- Television Advertising and Children's Diet Activity and Obesity PrevalenceLisa Powell; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Economic Contextual Influences on Population Diet and ObesityLisa Powell; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..