Browsing Theses by Subject "body mass index"
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Anti-obesity public health vs. fat acceptance: impacts on 'fat' as a marginalized identity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-10)I will argue that anti-obesity public health (AOPH), with a focus on Canadian AOPH, performs three functions with respect to the fat acceptance movements (FAMs). These are as follows. Firstly, AOPH distracts by derailing ... -
Body Mass Index and Missing Data: Examining the Levels, Patterns, and Impacts of Missing Data in a Large Cohort Study of Canadian Youth
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)Missing data are generally unavoidable in survey-based research. Small amounts of random missingness may not pose significant problems; however, issues arise when data are missing in large proportions or when missingness ... -
Gender Differences in Chronic Disease Risk Behaviours and their Association with Body Mass Index: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Multilevel Analyses Among a Large Sample of Youth.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Obesity has become a worldwide concern due to the escalating number of individuals who have overweight or obesity. The prevalence of overweight/obesity among youth aged 12-17 years old was 37% in 2012-2013, as reported in ... -
Mathematical Modelling of Social Factors in Decision Making Processes at the Individual and Population Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-11)In this thesis we apply mathematical modelling techniques to investigate the implications of social influence on decision making processes in two related contexts. The first problem concerns the mathematical modelling ... -
Student- and school-level characteristics associated with overweight and obesity among off-reserve Aboriginal students in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)Abstract Objective: This study characterized overweight and obesity among a sample of Canadian off-reserve Aboriginal (ORA) students in grades 9 to 12, identified between-school variability in overweight and obesity, ...