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Social influence and obesityRoss A Hammond
The Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20036, USA
Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes 17:467-71. 2010..To review a selection of research published in the last 12 months on the role of social influence in the obesity epidemic...
A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition securityRoss A Hammond
Center on Social Dynamics and Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:12356-63. 2012..We present a framework for such an approach, examine key underlying systems, and identify transdisciplinary modeling tools that may prove especially useful...
Complex systems modeling for obesity researchRoss A Hammond
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A97. 2009..The article gives an overview of modeling techniques especially well suited to study the rich and complex dynamics of obesity and to inform policy design...
Coupled contagion dynamics of fear and disease: mathematical and computational explorationsJoshua M Epstein
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e3955. 2008..They do not endogenously engage, for example, in social distancing based on fear. Yet, adaptive behavior is well-documented in true epidemics. We explore the effect of including such behavior in models of epidemic dynamics...
