Özet:

The aim of the study is to determine the extent to which obesity, a globally increasing health problem, is affected by changes in social and economic life. For this purpose, data on the obesity, health expenditures, unemployment, urbanization, smoking and alcohol consumption and calorie intake of 29 OECD and partner countries for the years 2000-2013 were obtained. With the data obtained, the effect levels of socio-economic factors on the increase in obesity rates in these countries were investigated. According to the findings, the increase in calorie intake, increasing urbanization as a result of changing sociological structure, increasing unemployment rate with urbanization and increasing alcohol use increase the obesity rate for the countries studied in our research between 2000-2013. In addition, the increase in health expenditures has a decreasing effect on obesity rate for the same period in the same countries. Finally, the increase in cigarette smoking causes individuals to lose weight due to their negative effects on healthy nutrition and decreases obesity rates. However, this decrease in obesity rates is not a healthy decrease, but on the contrary, it can cause much greater health problems. 

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