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作者

Ruoyu Wang;Zhixin Feng;Ye Liu;Yingzhi Qiu

来源

CITIES,Vol.99,Issue1,Article 102616

语言

英文

关键字

Urbanization;Health;Overweight;Lifestyle;Mechanism;China

作者单位

School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

摘要

Rapid urbanization has led to many health-related problems in China, and the increasing prevalence of overweight is one of the greatest threats to public health. Although previous literature has documented a linkage between urbanization and the prevalence of overweight in developing countries such as China, little research has been done to investigate the role of lifestyle related to energy intake and expenditure in mediating the effect of urbanization on individuals' risk of overweight. To bridge this knowledge gap, this study aims to examine the impacts of urbanization on individuals' odds of overweight and explore the mediating effect of lifestyle choices using data from 2016 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey. Results show that the effect of urbanization on being overweight has two sides. Specifically, while urbanization results in a sedentary lifestyle, which increases the risk of being overweight, urbanization rate weakens the effect of eating out frequently on being overweight and strengthens the influence of physical exercise on being overweight. Urbanization exerts complex effects on residents' risk of being overweight among Chinese people by shaping their lifestyle.