Minimum Wage and Overweight and Obesity in Adult Women: A Multilevel Analysis of Low and Middle Income Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the relationship between minimum wage and overweight and obesity across countries at different levels of development.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis of 27 countries with data on the legislated minimum wage level linked to socio-demographic and anthropometry data of non-pregnant 190,892 adult women (24-49 y) from the Demographic and Health Survey. We used multilevel logistic regression models to condition on country- and individual-level potential confounders, and post-estimation of average marginal effects to calculate the adjusted prevalence difference.

Results

We found the association between minimum wage and overweight/obesity was independent of individual-level SES and confounders, and showed a reversed pattern by country development sta

SUBMITTER: Conklin AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786275 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature