Concept information
Preferred term
obesity
Definition
- Obesity is one of the biggest health threats many children face in the modern world. Its incidence has risen so dramatically in recent years that it has been called an epidemic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Obesity]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- abdominal obesity
- biological or genetic contributors to obesity
- child obesity
- dietary interventions to treat obesity
- disordered eating and obesity
- environmental contributors to obesity
- health implications of obesity
- medical treatments for obesity
- morbid obesity
- new research frontiers on obesity
- obesity and ethnicity/race
- obesity and the brain or obesity and behavior
- obesity as a public health crisis
- obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- psychological influences and outcomes of obesity
- societal influences and outcomes of obesity
- women and obesity
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/obesity
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