Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity

Autores
Gallos, Lazaros K.; Barttfeld, Pablo; Havlin, Shlomo; Sigman, Mariano; Makse, Hernán Alejandro
Año de publicación
2012
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Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies
Fil: Gallos, Lazaros K.. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Havlin, Shlomo. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Makse, Hernán Alejandro. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
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THERMODYNAMICS
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
spellingShingle Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
Gallos, Lazaros K.
APPLIED PHYSICS
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS PHYSICS
STATISTICAL PHYSICS
THERMODYNAMICS
title_short Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_full Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_fullStr Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_full_unstemmed Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
title_sort Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gallos, Lazaros K.
Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán Alejandro
author Gallos, Lazaros K.
author_facet Gallos, Lazaros K.
Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán Alejandro
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author2 Barttfeld, Pablo
Havlin, Shlomo
Sigman, Mariano
Makse, Hernán Alejandro
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv APPLIED PHYSICS
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS PHYSICS
STATISTICAL PHYSICS
THERMODYNAMICS
topic APPLIED PHYSICS
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS PHYSICS
STATISTICAL PHYSICS
THERMODYNAMICS
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies
Fil: Gallos, Lazaros K.. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Havlin, Shlomo. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Makse, Hernán Alejandro. City University of New York; Estados Unidos
description Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies
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