| Description |
1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-187) and index. |
| Contents |
Trends in obesity, poverty, and public assistance -- The "public assistance causes obesity" hypothesis -- The "obesity causes public assistance" hypothesis -- The "poverty causes both public assistance and obesity" hypothesis -- The "factor X causes both public assistance and obesity" hypothesis -- Common threads and conclusions. |
| Summary |
This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like the Food Stamp and National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence from an array of disciplines--anthropology, economics, epidemiology, marketing, medicine, nutrition science, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning--to test this claim and to test whether other causal processes are at work. --from publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Obesity -- United States -- Etiology.
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Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States.
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Public welfare -- United States.
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Obesity -- etiology.
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Poverty.
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Public Assistance.
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United States.
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MEDICAL -- Bariatrics.
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Obesity -- Etiology.
(OCoLC)fst01042745
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Obesity -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01042759
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Poverty -- Health aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01074104
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Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Sozialhilfe.
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Armut.
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Fettsucht.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Patricia K. (Patricia Kay), 1959- Obesity among poor Americans. Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2009 9780826516350 (DLC) 2008024088 (OCoLC)230848027 |
| ISBN |
9780826516374 (electronic bk.) |
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0826516378 (electronic bk.) |
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