Are network-based interventions a useful antiobesity strategy? An application of simulation models for causal inference in epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-295

  El Sayed, Abdulrahman M ^a,b,c   Seemann, Lars ^d   Scarborough, Peter ^c   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

computer simulation; intervention; obesity; public health; social networks

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERVENTION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBESITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880535136     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws455     Document Type: Article

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