Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity

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Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial co...

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Autores principales: Gallos, Lazaros K., Barttfeld, Pablo, Havlin, Shlomo, Sigman, Mariano, Makse, Hernán A.
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
Materias:
Obesidad
Física
Physics
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11084
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Repositorio Digital Universidad Torcuato Di Tella de Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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topic Obesidad
Física
Physics
spellingShingle Obesidad
Física
Physics
Gallos, Lazaros K.
Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán A.
Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
description Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies.
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author Gallos, Lazaros K.
Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán A.
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Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán A.
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title Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_short Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_full Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_fullStr Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_full_unstemmed Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
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publishDate 2018
url https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
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