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Why are we fat? Discussions on the socioeconomic dimensions and responses to obesity

This paper draws together contributions to a scientific table discussion on obesity at the European Science Open Forum 2008 which took place in Barcelona, Spain. Socioeconomic dimensions of global obesity, including those factors promoting it, those surrounding the social perceptions of obesity and...

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Autores principales: Rayner, Geof, Gracia, Mabel, Young, Elizabeth, Mauleon, Jose R, Luque, Emilio, Rivera-Ferre, Marta G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-7
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author Rayner, Geof
Gracia, Mabel
Young, Elizabeth
Mauleon, Jose R
Luque, Emilio
Rivera-Ferre, Marta G
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Gracia, Mabel
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description This paper draws together contributions to a scientific table discussion on obesity at the European Science Open Forum 2008 which took place in Barcelona, Spain. Socioeconomic dimensions of global obesity, including those factors promoting it, those surrounding the social perceptions of obesity and those related to integral public health solutions, are discussed. It argues that although scientific accounts of obesity point to large-scale changes in dietary and physical environments, media representations of obesity, which context public policy, pre-eminently follow individualistic models of explanation. While the debate at the forum brought together a diversity of views, all the contributors agreed that this was a global issue requiring an equally global response. Furthermore, an integrated ecological model of obesity proposes that to be effective, policy will need to address not only human health but also planetary health, and that therefore, public health and environmental policies coincide.
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spelling pubmed-28732492010-05-20 Why are we fat? Discussions on the socioeconomic dimensions and responses to obesity Rayner, Geof Gracia, Mabel Young, Elizabeth Mauleon, Jose R Luque, Emilio Rivera-Ferre, Marta G Global Health Commentary This paper draws together contributions to a scientific table discussion on obesity at the European Science Open Forum 2008 which took place in Barcelona, Spain. Socioeconomic dimensions of global obesity, including those factors promoting it, those surrounding the social perceptions of obesity and those related to integral public health solutions, are discussed. It argues that although scientific accounts of obesity point to large-scale changes in dietary and physical environments, media representations of obesity, which context public policy, pre-eminently follow individualistic models of explanation. While the debate at the forum brought together a diversity of views, all the contributors agreed that this was a global issue requiring an equally global response. Furthermore, an integrated ecological model of obesity proposes that to be effective, policy will need to address not only human health but also planetary health, and that therefore, public health and environmental policies coincide. BioMed Central 2010-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2873249/ /pubmed/20416037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-7 Text en Copyright ©2010 Rayner et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rayner, Geof
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title_short Why are we fat? Discussions on the socioeconomic dimensions and responses to obesity
title_sort why are we fat? discussions on the socioeconomic dimensions and responses to obesity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-7
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