Society of Behavioral Medicine Call to Action: Include obesity/overweight management education in health professional curricula and provide coverage for behavior-based treatments of obesity/overweight most commonly provided by psychologists, dieticians, counselors, and other health care professionals and include such providers on all multidisciplinary teams treating patients who have overweight or obesity

Obesity is a serious chronic disease whose prevalence has grown to epidemic proportions over the past five decades and is a major contributor to the global burden of most common cancers, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and sleep apnea. Primary care clinicians, including physicians, nu...

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Autores principales:	Ockene, Judith K, Ashe, Karen, Peterson, Kenneth S, Fitzgibbon, Marian, Buscemi, Joanna, Dulin, Akilah
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Oxford University Press 2020
Materias:	Practice and Public Health Policies
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7963292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32242625 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibaa030