Macro partitioning
Domestic economic development, urbanization, and women's empowerment drive global increases in BMI, whereas economic and cultural globalization do not significantly predict weight gain.
Focus on understanding how your country's economic development, urbanization, and social changes (like women's workforce participation) impact your community's health. Simply opening markets to global goods does not automatically cause obesity; domestic socio-economic transitions are the stronger drivers.
we find that domestic factors associated with 'modernization' including increasing GDP per capita, urbanization and women's empowerment were associated with increases in mean BMI over time... By contrast, economic globalization (dependency/world systems theory) did not significantly predict increases in mean BMI and cultural globalization had mixed effects.
Why this rating
Large longitudinal panel dataset (190 countries, 30 years) with robust fixed-effects regression and multiple imputation.
Source
What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or “modernization”?
Ashley Fox et al. · Globalization and Health · 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12992-019-0457-y
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- There is a curvilinear (inverted-U) relationship between GDP per capita and BMI: weight gain increases with development in low-income countries but decreases or levels off in high-income countries.Good
- Women's empowerment is positively associated with increased BMI, particularly in high-income countries.Good
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