Obesity as an "infectious" disease
| Main Authors: | Żuraw, Daria, Oleksa, Paulina, Sobczyk, Mateusz |
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| Format: | Article |
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, 2021
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- Żuraw Daria, Oleksa Paulina, Sobczyk Mateusz. Obesity as an "infectious" disease. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(9):534-537. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.09.069 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.09.069 https://zenodo.org/record/5527843 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 15.09.2021. Revised: 20.09.2021. Accepted: 24.09.2021. Obesity as an "infectious" disease Daria Żuraw1, Paulina Oleksa1, Mateusz Sobczyk1 Daria Żuraw, ORCID:0000-0003-0815-4322, dariazuraw19@gmail.com Paulina Oleksa, ORCID:0000-0002-3474-6156, gp.oleksa@gmail.com Mateusz Sobczyk, ORCID:0000-0001-8690-2387, m.sobczyk1777@gmail.com 1Student Research Circle at the Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland Abstract Introduction: Obesity has been recognized as a global epidemic by the WHO, followed by a wealth of empirical evidence supporting its contagiousness. However, the dynamics of the spread of obesity between individuals are rarely studied. A distinguishing feature of the obesity epidemic is that it is driven by a process of social contagion that cannot be perfectly described by the infectious disease model. There is also social discrimination in the obesity epidemic. Social discrimination against obese people plays quite different roles in two cases: on the one hand, when obesity cannot be eliminated, social discrimination can reduce the number of obese people; on the other hand, when obesity is eradicable, social discrimination can cause it to explode.(1) Materiał and methods: A literature analysis on obesity epidemic was carried out within the Pubmed, Google scholar and Research Gate platform. The following keywords were used in serach: obesity, epidemy, children, body max index. Purpose of the work: The aim of the following analysis is to present an obesity as an infectious disease. The steadily increasing percentage of obese people, including children, shows that there is an obesity epidemic. This is the phenomenon of social contagion, which partially explains the concept of homophily, which involves the grouping of people with similar characteristics. Potential explanations are also provided by sharing a living environment with similar access to certain foods and similar opportunities for physical activity, which defines the occurrence of analogous health habits Key words: obesity; epidemy; children; body max index