Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 174;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 5 April 2012
- ISBN 9780197264980
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 241x161x8 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 0
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During the last three decades, obesity has emerged as a big public health issue in affluent societies. A number of academic and policy approaches have been taken, none of which has been very effective. Most of the academic research, whether biological, epidemiological, social-scientific, or in the humanities, has focused on the individual, and on his or her response to external incentives.
The point of departure taken here is that institutions matter a great deal too, and especially the normative environment of the nation state. In brief, the argument is that obesity is a response to stress, and that some types of welfare regimes are more stressful than others. English-speaking market-liberal societies have higher levels of obesity, and also higher levels of labour and product market competition, which induce uncertainty and anxiety. The studies presented here investigate this hypothesis, utilising a variety of disciplines, and the concluding contribution by the editors presents strong statistical evidence for its validity at the aggregate level. The hypothesis has an important bearing on public health policy and, indirectly, on economic policy more generally. It indicates that important drivers of obesity arise from the interaction between the external 'shock' of falling food prices and the enduring normative assumptions that govern society as a whole.
If obesity is determined in part by inflexible norms and institutions, it may not be easy to counter it by focused interventions. Distinctive societal policy norms like an attachment to individualism (which national communities embrace with some conviction) may have harmful social spillovers which are rarely taken into account.
MoreTable of Contents:
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Jon Wisman and Kevin Capehart: Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic Obesity
- Part 1: Biological Fundamentals
- 3: Robin Dunbar: Obesity: An Evolutionary Perspective
- 4.: Trent Smith: Behavioural Biology and Obesity
- Part 2: Social Stress
- 5.: Adam Drewnowski: Spatial Analyses of Obesity and Poverty
- 6: Ruth Bell: Spatial Analyses of Obesity and Poverty
- 7: Peter Whybrow: Time Urgency, Sleep Loss and Obesity
- Part 3: Sicuak Diffusion of Obesity and its Causes
- 8: John Komlos: The Transition to Post-Industrial BMI Values in the United States
- 9: Thorkild Sorensen: The History of the Obesity Epidemic in Denmark
- 10: Kate Pickett: Income Inequality and Psychosocial Pathways to Obesity
- 11: Avner Offer: 1. Obesity Under Affluence Varies by Welfare Regimes
