Diet, risk of obesity and socioeconomic circumstances of individuals in the UK: A seemingly unrelated approach

摘要: Understanding the link between diet, risk of obesity and underlying socioeconomic circumstances individual is useful for health promotion improvement interventions. In this study, we examined factors that jointly affect food consumption choices obesity. We analyse National Dietary Nutrition Survey (2000/01) adults aged 19-64 years living in private households UK, using a production framework. used information on complete history individuals previous week to create eight common groups. estimated system linear (as measured by Body Mass Index) diet equations with error terms are correlated across given individual, but uncorrelated individuals, seemingly unrelated regression method. Our findings indicate (e.g. income education) associated sources healthy eating differ. While increasing household purchasing power may be more effective healthier foods such as fruit vegetables, knowledge about cutting down less preserves savoury foods). An understanding these different contexts essential development targeted based policies aimed at reducing Link to Appendix