Measuring and tracking obesity inequality in the United States: evidence from NHANES, 1971-2014

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• 作者：Tae-Young Pak ; Susana Ferreira ; Gregory Colson
• 关键词：BMI distribution ; Obesity inequality ; Stochastic dominance ; Shapley decomposition ; Gini coefficient
• 刊名：Population Health Metrics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,359 KB
• 刊物主题：Epidemiology; Public Health;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1478-7954

文摘

Background Because people care about their weight relative to peers and society, obesity inequality plays a role in explaining obesity incidence and the impacts of being obese on subjective well-being. While the increase in obesity prevalence and mean body mass index (BMI) is well documented, the measurement of distributional changes and corresponding obesity inequality is yet to be fully explored.