The rising prevalence of obesity: part B—public health policy solutions

Obesity is likely to supersede tobacco as the biggest cause of premature death. England has some of the worst figures and trends in obesity compared with the rest of the Europe. Rising obesity prevalence is an international crisis that has the potential to overwhelm health care resources as well as...

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Autores principales: Agha, Maliha, Agha, Riaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5673155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29177229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/IJ9.0000000000000019
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spelling pubmed-56731552017-11-22 The rising prevalence of obesity: part B—public health policy solutions Agha, Maliha Agha, Riaz Int J Surg Oncol (N Y) Review Articles Obesity is likely to supersede tobacco as the biggest cause of premature death. England has some of the worst figures and trends in obesity compared with the rest of the Europe. Rising obesity prevalence is an international crisis that has the potential to overwhelm health care resources as well as creating enormous human suffering and social cost. This article outlines potential public health policy solutions to this crisis. Wolters Kluwer 2017-08 2017-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5673155/ /pubmed/29177229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/IJ9.0000000000000019 Text en Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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