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Minimum Wage and Overweight and Obesity in Adult Women: A Multilevel Analysis of Low and Middle Income Countries
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PloS one, vol 11, iss 3, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 3, p e0150736 (2016), Conklin, A, Ponce, N, Frank, J, Nandi, A & Heymann, J 2016, ' Minimum wage and overweight and obesity in adult women: a multi-level analysis of low and middle-income countries ', PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 3, e0150736 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150736
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2016.
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Abstract
- Author(s): Conklin, Annalijn I; Ponce, Ninez A; Frank, John; Nandi, Arijit; Heymann, Jody | Abstract: ObjectivesTo describe the relationship between minimum wage and overweight and obesity across countries at different levels of development.MethodsA cross-sectional analysis of 27 countries with data on the legislated minimum wage level linked to socio-demographic and anthropometry data of non-pregnant 190,892 adult women (24-49 y) from the Demographic and Health Survey. We used multilevel logistic regression models to condition on country- and individual-level potential confounders, and post-estimation of average marginal effects to calculate the adjusted prevalence difference.ResultsWe found the association between minimum wage and overweight/obesity was independent of individual-level SES and confounders, and showed a reversed pattern by country development stage. The adjusted overweight/obesity prevalence difference in low-income countries was an average increase of about 0.1 percentage points (PD 0.075 [0.065, 0.084]), and an average decrease of 0.01 percentage points in middle-income countries (PD -0.014 [-0.019, -0.009]). The adjusted obesity prevalence difference in low-income countries was an average increase of 0.03 percentage points (PD 0.032 [0.021, 0.042]) and an average decrease of 0.03 percentage points in middle-income countries (PD -0.032 [-0.036, -0.027]).ConclusionThis is among the first studies to examine the potential impact of improved wages on an important precursor of non-communicable diseases globally. Among countries with a modest level of economic development, higher minimum wage was associated with lower levels of obesity.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Databases, Factual
Economics
Physiology
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Overweight
Global Health
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Salaries
Medicine and Health Sciences
Prevalence
Medicine
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
10. No inequality
lcsh:Science
Multidisciplinary
Anthropometry
Confounding
Multilevel model
1. No poverty
Percentage point
Middle Aged
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
3. Good health
Professions
Physiological Parameters
8. Economic growth
Female
Physical Anthropology
medicine.symptom
Research Article
Adult
General Science & Technology
Developing country
03 medical and health sciences
Databases
Adults
Humans
Obesity
Minimum wage
Developing Countries
Factual
Nutrition
030109 nutrition & dietetics
business.industry
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
lcsh:R
Body Weight
Biology and Life Sciences
medicine.disease
Health Surveys
Health Care
Good Health and Well Being
Socioeconomic Factors
Age Groups
Labor Economics
Anthropology
People and Places
Minimum Wage
lcsh:Q
Population Groupings
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28188d3009aba3ec0bbae7032fe62bcd