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Title: Obesity Over the Life Course: A Study of How Obesity Produces Health Disadvantage and Excess Mortality in the United States
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Jackson, Heide |
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Obesity Over the Life Course: A Study of How Obesity Produces Health Disadvantage and Excess Mortality in the United States Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Disability; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Obesity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation explores the influence of obesity on U.S. population morbidity and mortality. Across three essays, I examine the relation of obesity to work disability, activity impairment, and mortality. Chapter 1 looks at how obesity in early adulthood affects work disability at young and middle ages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, I employ logistic regression to assess whether an early onset of obesity affects the likelihood of developing a work disabling condition and use event history analysis to predict the time at which that work disability occurs. Results indicate that early obesity increases the likelihood that a person will develop a work disability and uniformly increases the relative hazard of the disability occurring. The association of obesity and work disability remains robust to the inclusion of covariates and modeling the process that selects a person to become obese. |
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Jackson, Heide. Obesity Over the Life Course: A Study of How Obesity Produces Health Disadvantage and Excess Mortality in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015. |