Sunday, November 10, 2013

Social Networks Critical to Understanding the Spread of Obesity

Health professionals in this study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, conducted a social network analysis to see how person-to-person networks contribute to the obesity epidemic. Their conclusion was not very surprising: network phenomena is quite relevant to this epidemic and its spread depends on the social ties. 

http://humannaturelab.net/wp-content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/078.pdf

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