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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2010.205

Identifying geographical variations in poverty-obesity relationships: empirical evidence from Taiwan

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Received: 22 December 2014
Published: 1 May 2010
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obesity, poverty, socio-economic inequality, geographically weighted regression, Taiwan.

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Tzai-Hung Wen
Department of Geography, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China.
Duan-Rung Chen
duan@ntu.edu.tw
Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China.
Meng-Ju Tsai
Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Province of China.
There is an increasing interest in the relationship between area-based disadvantage and obesity but the extent to which the poverty-obesity relationship remains constant across geographical areas remains unclear. We examined geographical variations in the relationship between poverty and obesity in Taiwan using geographically weighted regression (GWR). A representative sample of 27,293 Taiwanese adults (21 to 64 years old) from 262 townships was obtained from the 2001 Social Development Trend Survey on Health and Safety (SDSHS) in Taiwan. GWR revealed that there were local variations in the poverty-obesity relationship and that poverty was only significantly associated with obesity in less-developed areas. Significant relationship between poverty and obesity was found only in less-developed areas, suggesting that the impact of poverty on obesity is area-specific.

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Identifying geographical variations in poverty-obesity relationships: empirical evidence from Taiwan. (2010). Geospatial Health, 4(2), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2010.205

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