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dc.rights.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es_AR
dc.contributor.authorGallos, Lazaros K.es_AR
dc.contributor.authorBarttfeld, Pabloes_AR
dc.contributor.authorHavlin, Shlomoes_AR
dc.contributor.authorSigman, Marianoes_AR
dc.contributor.authorMakse, Hernán A.es_AR
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-18T17:03:47Z
dc.date.available2018-08-18T17:03:47Z
dc.date.issued2012-06-12
dc.identifierdoi: 10.1038/srep00454es_AR
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/srep00454es_AR
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11084
dc.description.abstractObesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies.es_AR
dc.format.extent9 p.es_AR
dc.format.mediumapplication/pdfes_AR
dc.languageenges_AR
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reports, Volume 2, Article number: 454 (2012. ISSN: 2045-2322es_AR
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_AR
dc.subjectObesidades_AR
dc.subjectFísicaes_AR
dc.titleCollective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesityes_AR
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_AR
dc.subject.keywordPhysicses_AR
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiones_AR
dc.description.filiationFil: Gallos, Lazaros K.Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USAes_AR
dc.description.filiationFil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentinaes_AR
dc.description.filiationFil: Havlin, Shlomo. Minerva Center and Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israeles_AR
dc.description.filiationFil: Sigman, Mariano. ntegrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentinaes_AR
dc.description.filiationFil: Makse, Hernán A. Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentinaes_AR


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