The effect of rising obesity on eligibility to serve in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps [0.03%]
美国公共卫生服务专员 corps征兵资格受肥胖率上升的影响分析
Johanna Catherine Maclean,John Cawley
Johanna Catherine Maclean
This study investigates how rising obesity has affected eligibility to serve in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), the uniformed service charged with protecting and promoting public health in the U.S. Data a...
Zhenxiang Zhao,Robert Kaestner,Xin Xu
Zhenxiang Zhao
In this paper, we used a randomized experiment, the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration (MTO) study, to assess whether several environmental attributes are causes of obesity. To accomplish our objective, we linked the MTO d...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Economics and human biology. 2014 Jul:14:128-40. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2013.12.001 2014
Susan L Averett,Julie K Smith
Susan L Averett
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and health. Individuals with less healthy lifestyles are more likely to hold debt, yet there is little evidence as to whether this is merely a correlation or if financial hardship ac...
Mendelian randomization in health research: using appropriate genetic variants and avoiding biased estimates [0.03%]
遗传学梅徳尼克随机化在健康研究中的应用：选用合适的遗传标记及避免估计偏倚
Amy E Taylor,Neil M Davies,Jennifer J Ware et al.
Amy E Taylor et al.
Mendelian randomization methods, which use genetic variants as instrumental variables for exposures of interest to overcome problems of confounding and reverse causality, are becoming widespread for assessing causal relationships in epidemi...
Racial differences in the influence of female adolescents' body size on dating and sex [0.03%]
种族差异对少女体型与约会及性行为的影响
Mir M Ali,John A Rizzo,Aliaksandr Amialchuk et al.
Mir M Ali et al.
This paper investigates the effect of body size on dating and sexual experiences of white (non-Hispanic) and African American (non-Hispanic) female adolescents. Using data from Add-Health, we estimate the effects of obesity and BMI z-score ...
Richard H Steckel
Richard H Steckel
Johanna Catherine Maclean,Haiyong Xu,Michael T French et al.
Johanna Catherine Maclean et al.
We examine the impact of Axis II personality disorders (PDs) on body weight. PDs are psychiatric conditions that develop early in life from a mixture of genetics and environment, are persistent, and lead to substantial dysfunction for the a...
Michael Grossman,Erdal Tekin,Roy Wada
Michael Grossman
We examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), amo...
Timothy Tyler Brown
Timothy Tyler Brown
This study estimates the causal impact of variation in the expenditures of California county departments of public health on all-cause mortality rates and the associated value of lives saved. Since the activities of county departments of pu...
A six decades long follow-up on body size in adolescents from Zagreb, Croatia (1951-2010) [0.03%]
1951至2010年六十年来克罗地亚萨格勒布地区青少年体格的纵向变化研究
Matea Zajc Petranović,Željka Tomas,Nina Smolej Narančić et al.
Matea Zajc Petranović et al.
Most studies analysing the influence of socioeconomic deterioration on body size focus on the impact of food shortages and diseases on the growth in early childhood. To evaluate how socioeconomic conditions influence the growth during the a...