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Subject(s)

• Demography [Browse]
• Obesity—Research [Browse]
• Demography—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Garcia-Alexander, Ginny [Browse]
• Poston, Dudley L., 1940- [Browse]

Series

• International handbooks of population ; 12. [More in this series]
• International handbooks of population ; 12 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part 1. Global Obesity Patterns and Implications
• 1. Global Obesity Patterns, an Introduction (Ginny Garcia-Alexander and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.)
• 2. Obesity: A Long-Term Global Challenge (James Bentham and Mariachiara Di Cesare)
• 3. Economic Costs of Obesity in Europe (Jutta Viinikainen, Petri Bockerman, and Jaakko Pehkonen)
• 4. Impact of Obesity on Life Expectancy Among Different European Countries, 1975-2012 (Nikoletta Vidra, Sergi Trias-Llimos, and Fanny Janssen)
• 5. Obesity with Chinese Characteristics? Prevalence and Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in China (Jiaxin Gu, Yue Yuan, Kenneth C. Land, and Qiang Fu)
• Part 2. Obesity and Demographic Processes, Structures, and Characteristics)
• 6. Obesity and Mortality (Neil K. Mehta)
• 7. Obesity and Immigration (Ginny Garcia-Alexander and Amethyst Morgan Marroquin)
• 8. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Obesity Prevalence: What Have We Learned from Demographic and Population Health Science? (Michelle L. Frisco, Kelsey Shaulis, Jennifer Van Hook, and Robert A. Hummer)
• 9. Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity (Patrick M. Krueger, Shawna F. Bayerman, and Eric N. Reither)
• 10. Sibling Effects on the Development of Obesity (Toni Falbo and Shengjie Lin)
• Part 3. Emerging Areas of Study
• 11. Fit for Christ or Gluttons for God? An Overview of Research on Religious Involvement and Body Mass (Terrence D. Hill, Samantha M. Galindo, and Amy M. Burdette)
• 12. Psychosocial Stressors and Obesity (Adolfo G. Cuevas, Natalie Eckert, and Keri Carvalho)
• 13. The Neighborhood Environment and Overweight/Obesity (Angelica Lopez and Kathryn Freeman Anderson)
• 14. Treatment and Outcome Disparities for Patients with Obesity in Emergency Medical Services (Jamie Kennel, Hyeyoung Woo, and Ginny Garcia-Alexander)
• Part 4. Obesity in Sexual Minority Populations. )
• 15. Obesity Prevalence and Trends in the Asexual and Sexual Populations (Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Ceylan Engin, and Yagmur Cagatay)
• 16. Are Gay Men More Fit? Obesity and Overweight Differences among Gay and Straight Men (Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Sharon Baker-Hughes)
• 17. Prevalence and Trends in Obesity and Overweight among U.S. Women: Do Lesbians Differ from Straight Women? (Carol Walther and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.)
• 18. Obesity and Bisexuality: Is Being Bi an Issue? (Mary Ann Davis)
• 19. Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Across Gender Identities (Mary Ann Davis, D'Lane Compton, and Nicole Farris)
• 20. Conclusions, Review, and Needed Research. (Ginny Garcia-Alexander).

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ISBN

• 9783031109355 ((hbk.) :)
• 303110935X

OCLC

1346321471

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