The Correlation Between Obesity and Socioeconomic StatusLooking at previous researches about obesity, one can already see that there is a connection between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity among individuals. Is this observation for countries? In an article published in The Economist, obesity is becoming a problem not only in the United States and United Kingdom, two of the richest nations today, but also in Mexico, Brazil, China and other countries in the developing world ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Ward", "given" : "Charlotte", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "2The Economist", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2012", "12" ] ] }, "title" : "The big picture", "type" : "article-magazine" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=624d8e02-1716-40be-b144-7e1a950d284a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Ward, 2012)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Ward, 2012). The report says that as of 2008, roughly one-third of the world`s total population is obese or overweight. The article also provides an explanation to the phenomenon of obesity: “Much of the shift is due to economic growth... Greater wealth means that bicycles are abandoned for motorbikes and cars, and work in the fields is swapped for sitting at a desk. In rich countries the share of the population that gets insufficient exercise is more than twice as high as in poor ones” ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Ward", "given" : "Charlotte", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "2The Economist", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2012", "12" ] ] }, "title" : "The big picture", "type" : "article-magazine" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=624d8e02-1716-40be-b144-7e1a950d284a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Ward, 2012)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Ward, 2012).Meanwhile in a recent report by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it was mentioned that obesity prevalence, has slowed for some countries, but it will continue to increase, though in a more modest rate. OECD accounts the slowdown of the epidemic to various legislation instituted by governments to support researches on obesity and policies for promoting healthy lifestyles. Through OECD`s report, one can already see the importance of the role of government support in order to combat obesity prevalence. Because government support requires corresponding budget to fund programs that p...