Qualitative Stability Analysis of an Obesity Epidemic Model with Social Contagion

We study an epidemiological mathematical model formulated in terms of an ODE system taking into account both social and nonsocial contagion risks of obesity. Analyzing first the case in which the model presents only the effect due to social contagion and using qualitative methods of the stability an...

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Main Authors: Enrique Lozano-Ochoa, Jorge Fernando Camacho, Cruz Vargas-De-León
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1084769