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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 141-145Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(01)00028-4
Keywords
obesity; social determinant; environmental determinant; socioeconomic status
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There is growing concern with the increasing prevalence of obesity in industrialised countries, a trend that is more apparent in the poor than in the rich. In an ecological study, the relationship between an area measure of socioeconomic status (SES) and the density of fast-food outlets was examined as one possible explanation for the phenomenon. It was found that there was a dose-response between SES and the density of fast-food outlets, with people living in areas from the poorest SES category having 2.5 times the exposure to outlets than people in the wealthiest category. The findings are discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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