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Obese Policy: Tackling Child Obesity in Alberta

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions around the globe and especially Canada. Obesity carries the risk of obtaining many other chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 2 diabetes. As a result, obesity carries a great economic burden in Canada as well as its provinces such as Alberta.
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The Infrastructure of Obesity and the Obesity Epidemic

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2005
If present increases in the rate of obesity persist, by 2015 half of the population in the US could be obese. This article presents the case that the reason for the epidemic is an 'infrastructure of obesity' that fuels the phenomenon. To control this epidemic, public policy in general and health policy in particular need to shift from market oriented ...
Kenneth R, Stanton, Zoltan J, Acs
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New drug policy in childhood obesity

International Journal of Obesity, 2005
To update physicians, especially paediatricians, in the rapidly developing field of pharmacotherapy of childhood and adolescent obesity.The paper reviews current and investigational antiobesity drugs.At present, there are only few drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult obesity.
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Pediatric Obesity Policy

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2003
Leona, Cuttler, June L, Whittaker, Eric D, Kodish   +2 more
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Obesity

The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2004
Laura L, Hayman, Suzanne, Hughes
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Obesity Policy Spotlight: New Trends in Obesity Policy

Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care, 2009
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Transportation Policies and Obesity

2023
James E. Peterman, David R. Bassett
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The ethics of obesity policy

2021
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U.S. Agricultural Policy and Obesity

2008
The doubling of the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. since 1980 has generated tremendous interest in understanding the causes of obesity and its recent rise. We study one important potential cause that has been little investigated: U.S. agriculture policy. We document that, by pursuing policies that benefit agricultural producers, the U.S.
Kirwan, Barrett E., Cawley, John
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Obesity Policy

2006
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