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rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people …
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rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673801
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292878
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599345
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522669
Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …
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This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which … measures currently used in the poverty literature can be usefully applied to measure obesity and provide us with measures which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293765
characteristics but rather the in the impact of these characteristics on body mass index. -- Obesity ; Body Mass Index ; Decomposition …Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726086
rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the … education and their higher income. -- Obesity ; Body Mass Index ; Concentration Index ; Decomposition …Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729281
This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which … measures currently used in the poverty literature can be usefully applied to measure obesity and provide us with measures which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328380