Neighborhood environments and obesity among Afro-Caribbean, African American, and Non-Hispanic white adults in the United States: Results from the National Survey of American Life

Providing parks, playgrounds, or open space or increasing the perception of those amenities may assist in the prevention of obesity, especially in ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the United States. More research is needed to investigate how perceptions of the neighborhood environment influence obesity and whether perceptions of the neighborhood environment differ between individuals within the same neighborhoods.