Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating behaviors among US school children based on agent-based model

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Youfa ^a,b   Xue, Hong ^a,b   Chen, Hsin Jen ^b,c   Igusa, Takeru ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Body mass index; Child; Healthy body image; Networks; Obesity; Overweight; Social norms

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL NORM; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL NORMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907447375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-923     Document Type: Article

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