Leveraging social influence to address overweight and obesity using agent-based models: The role of adolescent social networks

2014/06/02 by J. Zhang, Liping Tong, L. Tong +8 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Computer science #Digital Mental Health Interventions #Endocrinology #Gerontology #Medicine #Mental Health Research Topics #Obesity #Overweight #Psychology #Public health #Social media #Social medicine #Social network (sociolinguistics) #Social psychology #Sociology #World Wide Web

paper · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.049

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• Agent-based model [wikipedia]