Decomposing race and gender differences in underweight and obesity in South Africa

•South African women are 6% less likely to be underweight and 27% more likely to be obese than men. Across race, differences are as high as 19% and 17%.•Less than one third of the bodyweight differences within race across gender in South Africa are explained by differences in covariates.•In contrast...

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Volume:	15
Main Author:	Averett, Susan L Stacey, Nicholas Wang, Yang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.12.2014 ELSEVIER
published in:	Economics and human biology Vol. 15; pp. 23 - 40
ORCID:	0000-0002-6499-3334
Data of publication:	December 2014
ISSN:	1570-677X 1873-6130
EISSN:	1873-6130
Discipline:	Anatomy & Physiology Economics
Subjects:	Obesity South Africa Fairlie decomposition Underweight Economics Business & Economics Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Body Mass Index Humans Middle Aged Risk Factors South Africa - epidemiology Obesity - ethnology Thinness - ethnology Male Health Behavior Socioeconomic Factors Thinness - epidemiology Exercise Diet Smoking - epidemiology Obesity - epidemiology Sex Factors Adult Female Aged Index Medicus South Africa Obesity South Africa I12 Fairlie decomposition I14 Underweight URBAN INEQUALITY RISK MALNUTRITION WOMEN NUTRITION TRANSITION OVERWEIGHT HEALTH WEIGHT BURDEN
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2014 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS