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Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic
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Christakis, N. A., & Fowler, J. H. (2007) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmsa066082 · Cited by 5,007
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“While Christakis and Fowler (2007) found obesity to spread through peer influence in social networks, others suggest that unobserved confounds correlating with the social network structure (Lyons, 2011) or environmental exposure (Cohen-Cole and Fletcher, 2008) may be the culprit rather than peer influence.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cohen-Cole, E., & Fletcher, J. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Health Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-09
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1382-1387
- ISSN
- 0167-6296 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1985780260
- Cited by
- 479
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 25.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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