You are hereHome › College of Education & Professional Studies (CEPS) › Department of Social Work › O'Dare Wilson, Kellie › Place matters Style APAChicagoHarvardIEEEMLATurabian Choose the citation style. O’Dare Wilson, K. (2016). Place matters: Mitigating obesity with the person-in-environment approach. Social Work in Health Care, 55(3), 214-230. doi:10.1080/00981389.2015.1107017 Place matters Details Type Academic Journal Article Title Place matters: Mitigating obesity with the person-in-environment approach Contributor(s) O'Dare Wilson, Kellie (author) Located In Social Work in Health Care ISSN 0098-1389 Volume 55 Issue 3 Start Page 214 End Page 230 Date 2016 DOI 10.1080/00981389.2015.1107017 Abstract Research demonstrates that environmental and community-level variables contribute to obesity. Many of these variables are outside of personal volitional control, such as the characteristics of the places in which people live. Social work’s unique person-in-environment (PIE) approach is an ideal perspective from which to address obesity. This study employs the PIE perspective to examine sprawl, one environmental-level factor. We employed secondary data analysis to examine the effect of sprawl on obesity while controlling for covariates. Region of residence and sprawl significantly predicted obesity, net of covariates. Given that obesity varies among communities, social workers can respond with PIE-oriented solutions. Subject(s) Obesityobesity and placeoverweightsprawlperson-in-environment PID uwf:22784