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Obesity and what we need do about it- an interview with John Wass

In this podcast we talk to Professor John Wass, co-author of the ‘Action on obesity: Comprehensive care for all’ report, and Chair of the Working Party for Action on Obesity in the UK. In this interview Prof Wass discusses the gaps in care for obese patients in current UK healthcare services, and ou...

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Autor principal: Wass, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25163891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0135-0
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description In this podcast we talk to Professor John Wass, co-author of the ‘Action on obesity: Comprehensive care for all’ report, and Chair of the Working Party for Action on Obesity in the UK. In this interview Prof Wass discusses the gaps in care for obese patients in current UK healthcare services, and outlines his recommendations on what actions should be taken to tackle these issues, including how education about nutrition and obesity should be offered to the public as well as within the formal medical education system. The podcast for this interview is available at: http://media.biomedcentral.com/content/movies/supplementary/johnwass-audio-v1.mp3.
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spelling pubmed-41452192014-08-28 Obesity and what we need do about it- an interview with John Wass Wass, John BMC Med Question and Answer In this podcast we talk to Professor John Wass, co-author of the ‘Action on obesity: Comprehensive care for all’ report, and Chair of the Working Party for Action on Obesity in the UK. In this interview Prof Wass discusses the gaps in care for obese patients in current UK healthcare services, and outlines his recommendations on what actions should be taken to tackle these issues, including how education about nutrition and obesity should be offered to the public as well as within the formal medical education system. The podcast for this interview is available at: http://media.biomedcentral.com/content/movies/supplementary/johnwass-audio-v1.mp3. BioMed Central 2014-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4145219/ /pubmed/25163891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0135-0 Text en © Wass; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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