Economic development, urbanisation, technological change and overweight: what do we learn from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys?

Goryakin, Yevgeniy and Suhrcke, Marc (2014) Economic development, urbanisation, technological change and overweight: what do we learn from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys? Economics and Human Biology, 14. 109–127. ISSN 1873-6130

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Abstract

Obesity and overweight are spreading fast in developing countries, and have reached world record levels in some of them. Capturing the size, patterns and trends of the problem has, however, been severely hampered by the lack of comparable data in low and middle income countries. We seek to begin to fill this gap by testing several hypotheses on the determinants/correlates of overweight among women, related to the influence of economic and technological development. We undertake econometric analysis of nationally representative data on about 878,000 women aged 15–49 from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 56 countries over the years 1991–2009. Our findings support most previously expressed hypotheses of what might explain obesity patterns in developing countries, but they also reject some prior notions and add considerable nuance to the emerging pattern.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an open access article.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	overweight,socioeconomic factors,economic development,developing countries,sdg 3 - good health and well-being,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Economics Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023)
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2013 11:14
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 05:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47031
DOI:	10.1016/j.ehb.2013.11.003

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