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Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research
The obesity epidemic has grown rapidly into a major public health challenge, in the United States and worldwide. The scope and scale of the obesity epidemic motivate an urgent need for well-crafted policy interventions to prevent further spread and (potentially) to reverse the epidemic. Yet several...
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description | The obesity epidemic has grown rapidly into a major public health challenge, in the United States and worldwide. The scope and scale of the obesity epidemic motivate an urgent need for well-crafted policy interventions to prevent further spread and (potentially) to reverse the epidemic. Yet several attributes of the epidemic make it an especially challenging problem both to study and to combat. This article shows that these attributes — the great breadth in levels of scale involved, the substantial diversity of relevant actors, and the multiplicity of mechanisms implicated — are characteristic of a complex adaptive system. It argues that the obesity epidemic is driven by such a system and that lessons and techniques from the field of complexity science can help inform both scientific study of obesity and effective policies to combat obesity. The article gives an overview of modeling techniques especially well suited to study the rich and complex dynamics of obesity and to inform policy design. |
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spelling | pubmed-27224042009-08-25 Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research Hammond, Ross A. Prev Chronic Dis Special Topic The obesity epidemic has grown rapidly into a major public health challenge, in the United States and worldwide. The scope and scale of the obesity epidemic motivate an urgent need for well-crafted policy interventions to prevent further spread and (potentially) to reverse the epidemic. Yet several attributes of the epidemic make it an especially challenging problem both to study and to combat. This article shows that these attributes — the great breadth in levels of scale involved, the substantial diversity of relevant actors, and the multiplicity of mechanisms implicated — are characteristic of a complex adaptive system. It argues that the obesity epidemic is driven by such a system and that lessons and techniques from the field of complexity science can help inform both scientific study of obesity and effective policies to combat obesity. The article gives an overview of modeling techniques especially well suited to study the rich and complex dynamics of obesity and to inform policy design. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2722404/ /pubmed/19527598 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Topic Hammond, Ross A. Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title | Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title_full | Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title_fullStr | Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title_full_unstemmed | Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title_short | Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research |
title_sort | complex systems modeling for obesity research |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19527598 |
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