Hartmans, Maaike (2020) Obesity in an increasingly urban environment. The influence of socio-economic status on obesity in France and Hungary. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Over the last decades, the world has been going through a change in nutritional patterns, defined as the nutrition transition. Throughout this transition, dietary habits and physical activity patterns have been changing, leading to an increasing number of people being overweight or obese. Obesity has developed into a global health crisis and can be called an epidemic. The nutrition transition is influenced by, among other things, socio-economic status and is taking place in an increasingly urban environment. The obesity epidemic reached Western Europe first, and later Eastern Europe, but numbers are now similar. This raises the question how socio- economic status is associated with obesity in these two parts of Europe. Linear and logistic regressions are performed to answer this question for France and Hungary, using European Social Survey data, focusing on Social Inequalities of Health, with BMI and obesity as dependent variables. It can be concluded that obesity is a complex disease that is influenced by many different factors. The regression results show the influence of socio-economic status on BMI or obesity is different in France and Hungary. In France, a high socio-economic status is associated with a lower likelihood of being obese. In Hungary, there are hints of this same association, but it cannot be concluded based on this study.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Haisma, H.H. and Vogt, T.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2020 19:53 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2020 19:53 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3299 |
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