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POOR, OVERWEIGHT, AND SICK
by
Astrid-Christa Viciano y Gofferje
_____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Astrid-Christa Viciano y Gofferje
Object Description
| Title | Poor, overweight, and sick |
| Author | Viciano y Gofferje, Astrid-Christa |
| Author email | aviciano@yahoo.com;aviciano@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Specialized Journalism |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-07-01 |
| Date submitted | 2011-07-24 |
| Date approved | 2011-07-24 |
| Restricted until | 2011-07-24 |
| Date published | 2011-07-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Parks, Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Suro, Roberto Wipfli, Heather |
| Abstract | Global obesity constitutes, undoubtedly, one of the major epidemics at the beginning of the 21st century. Traditionally regarded as a problem limited to high-income countries, international organizations such as the WHO have only recently started to recognize the trend toward obesity in poor nations. In 2005, approximately 1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight, and at least 400 million of them were obese. At least 20 million children younger than five years are estimated to be overweight. In the past twenty years, the rates of obesity have tripled in low-income countries. This dissertation analyzes the causes of the tremendous increase in obesity rates in developing countries, using Mexico as an example. It also explores the programs the Mexican government has launched to halt the epidemic. The Latin American country has the highest percentage of overweight people among developing countries in the world. |
| Keyword | obesity; malnutrition; health; developing countries |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Viciano y Gofferje, Astrid-Christa |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-VicianoyGo-164.pdf |
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| Full text | POOR, OVERWEIGHT, AND SICK by Astrid-Christa Viciano y Gofferje _____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Astrid-Christa Viciano y Gofferje |
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