A model of social influence on body mass index

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1331, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-42

  Hammond, Ross A ^a   Ornstein, Joseph T ^b  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Body weight norms; Obesity; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84922713048     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12344     Document Type: Article

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