Review Article
Systems Science and Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and New Directions
Table 1
Systems science properties and nine properties of obesity.
| Systems science properties | Obesity properties |
| Breadth | Obesity prevention and treatment should be considered a common resource allocation problem | Feedback Loops | Obesity shapes and reflects a range of other issues | Dynamic systems in real time | Obesity and its consequences are developmental processes | Interactions of individuals actors | Obesity is a social process involving families, peers, and other individuals | Interactions between multiple levels | Obesity operates within a community environment that moderates family and individual levels | Complex relational structures | Interventions can only be assessed over time and can have unanticipated results | Heterogeneous actors | People are heterogeneous in their biological and behavioral predispositions towards obesity | Spatial | Individuals all have a space within the system | Bounded rationality | Individuals have imperfect knowledge about obesity |
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