Research Project #2

What is your topic? Or what are your key words thus far?

My topic is how supermarket access and prices affect obesity. Also, how food production affects people who work in farm fields and how low income families differ from upper class in terms of healthy food options. Keywords I am using are obesity, food environment, income, food prices and access.

What is your research question? Have you decided to change it at all? And, if you have, how do I know that the way in which this question is formulated is appropriate to conduct a literature review with a systematic approach? 

My research question is: How does the proximity and price of foods affect obesity in low income families and the upper class? Also, how are other people in the food industry chain affected? I have decided to change my question a little bit because I found interesting information on the treatment of workers in farm fields. I know that this question is appropriate to conduct a literature review because there are journals supporting my idea.

And what are the definitions on which it depends?

The definitions on which my research depends are:

Ethnography: This is utilizing observations and face to face interviews to collect relative and useful information on the topic. It will enable me to expand my research and help my focus of keywords.

Food Environment: This is a broad term for the foods that we are surrounded by in our supermarkets and other locations. How and where we get them from is also a large deal when we are discussing food environment.

Income: Described as how much a family/ single parent makes within a typical year. Has a huge effect on how adults and their children eat.

Obesity: To many people this is seen as a small problem, but with research we realize it is a widespread epidemic that kills many of Americans every year. This is a very general term that has a lot of meaning when talking about public health issues.

What is your hierarchy of evidence? And how do I know you going about finding the most appropriate evidence/method for your research question?

Ethnography
Cohort Studies
Policies
Food Environment
Income
Obesity
Prevention

Article #1: Ethnography

Bombak, A. (2015). “Obesities”: Experiences and perspectives across weight trajectories. . Acedemic Search Premier, 24(3). Retrieved February 10, 2017.

Article #2: Policies

Roberts, P. (2009). Spoiled. Acedemic Search Premier, 34(2), 28-36. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

Article #3: Food Environment

Mcinerney, M., Csizmadi, I., Friedenreich, C. M., Uribe, F. A., Nettel-Aguirre, A., Mclaren, L., . . . Mccormack, G. R. (2016). Associations between the neighbourhood food environment, neighbourhood socioeconomic status, and diet quality: An observational study. BMC Public Health, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3631-7

Article #4: Income

Nakhimovsky, S. S., Feigl, A. B., Avila, C., O’Sullivan, G., Macgregor-Skinner, E., & Spranca, M. (2016). Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. Plos One, 11(9). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163358

Article #5: Prevention

Clarke, B., Swinburn, B., & Sacks, G. (2016). The application of theories of the policy process to obesity prevention: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. BMC Public Health, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3639-z