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| Title |
Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity, and inequality
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| Published in |
Economics & Human Biology, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.ehb.2010.07.002 |
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| Authors |
Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey, Stanley Ulijaszek |
| Abstract |
Among affluent countries, those with market-liberal welfare regimes (which are also English-speaking) tend to have the highest prevalence of obesity. The impact of cheap, accessible high-energy food is often invoked in explanation. An alternative approach is that overeating is a response to stress, and that competition, uncertainty, and inequality make market-liberal societies more stressful. This ecological regression meta-study pools 96 body-weight surveys from 11 countries c. 1994-2004. The fast-food 'shock' impact is found to work most strongly in market-liberal countries. Economic insecurity, measured in several different ways, was almost twice as powerful, while the impact of inequality was weak, and went in the opposite direction. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 235 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 3% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 221 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 47 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 17% |
| Researcher | 37 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 16% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 16% |
| Unknown | 25 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 54 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 19 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 6% |
| Other | 51 | 22% |
| Unknown | 36 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 December 2021.
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