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An edition of Obesity among poor Americans (2009)

Obesity among poor Americans

is public assistance the problem?

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This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like the Food Stamp and National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence from an array of disciplines--anthropology, economics, epidemiology, marketing, medicine, nutrition science, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning--to test this claim and to test whether other causal processes are at work. --From publisher's description.

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Vanderbilt University Press
Language
English
Pages
197

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Subjects

Etiology, Health aspects, Health aspects of Poverty, Obesity, Poverty, Public Assistance, Public welfare, Social aspects, Social aspects of Obesity, Public welfare, united states

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United States
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Obesity among poor Americans: is public assistance the problem?
2009, Vanderbilt University Press
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Table of Contents

Trends in obesity, poverty, and public assistance
The "welfare causes obesity" hypothesis
The "obesity causes welfare" hypothesis
The "poverty causes both welfare and obesity" hypothesis
The "factor X causes obesity and welfare" hypothesis
Common threads and conclusions.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Nashville, Tenn

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/3980086942
Library of Congress
RC628 .S6415 2009, RC628.S6415 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
197

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16900555M
ISBN 13
9780826516350, 9780826516367
LCCN
2008024088
OCLC/WorldCat
230848027
LibraryThing
8947866
Goodreads
7012996
7012995

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OL11967344W

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