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:	Sigman, Mariano, Makse, Hernan
Publicado:	2012
Materias:	article behavior human medical geography obesity prevalence risk factor United States Behavior Geography, Medical Humans Obesity Prevalence Risk Factors
Acceso en línea:	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos
Aporte de:	Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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spelling	paper:paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos2023-06-08T16:33:22Z Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity Sigman, Mariano Makse, Hernan article behavior human medical geography obesity prevalence risk factor United States Behavior Geography, Medical Humans Obesity Prevalence Risk Factors United States 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. Fil:Sigman, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Makse, H.A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2012 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos
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topic	article behavior human medical geography obesity prevalence risk factor United States Behavior Geography, Medical Humans Obesity Prevalence Risk Factors United States
spellingShingle	article behavior human medical geography obesity prevalence risk factor United States Behavior Geography, Medical Humans Obesity Prevalence Risk Factors United States Sigman, Mariano Makse, Hernan Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
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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.
author	Sigman, Mariano Makse, Hernan
author_facet	Sigman, Mariano Makse, Hernan
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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
title_sort	collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
publishDate	2012
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Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity

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