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Contextualizing Obesity and Diabetes Policy: Exploring a Nested Statistical and Constructivist Approach at the Cross-National and Subnational Government Level in the United States and Brazil [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy.
Eduardo J. Gómez
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Ultra-processed foods: challenging corporate power and promoting local food systems to reclaim health

Globalization and Health
The 2025 Lancet Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) marks a turning point in global health by reframing UPFs not simply as unhealthy products, but as outcomes of food systems shaped by corporate power, trade liberalisation, and extractive economic ...
Angela Carriedo, Mary Labbé, T. Alafia Samuels, Kent Buse, the Policy and Prevention Committee of the World Obesity Federation   +4 more
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Impact of motivational interviewing as a follow-up to an exercise intervention among women with or at risk for metabolic syndrome: A randomized controlled trial

SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Objectives: Women have a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome than their male counterparts, and interventions should target women with or at risk for metabolic syndrome.
Kameron B Suire, Ashley Peart, Jan Kavookjian, Danielle D Wadsworth   +3 more
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Can health policy interventions readily solve the U.S. obesity problem? [PDF]

, 2011
Can health policy interventions readily solve the U.S. obesity problem? Research by Michael Grossman, Ph.D., and Naci Mocan, Ph.D., suggests that policies can have unplanned negative ...
Grossman, Michael, Mocan, Naci
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Comparing complex perspectives on obesity drivers: action‐driven communities and evidence‐oriented experts

Obesity Science & Practice, 2018
Summary Introduction The Foresight obesity map represents an expert‐developed systems map describing the complex drivers of obesity. Recently, community‐led causal loop diagrams have been developed to support community‐based obesity prevention ...
J. McGlashan, J. Hayward, A. Brown, B. Owen, L. Millar, M. Johnstone, D. Creighton, S. Allender   +7 more
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The Obesity Epidemic: Causes and Current Policy Perspectives

, 2011
The Health Policy Forum examines the effects of obesity as a public health concern and possible policy options to combat ...
Grossman, Michael, Mocan, Naci
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Reducing the Treatment Gap and Public Health Burden of Osteoporotic Fractures [PDF]

, 2021
K2P Policy Briefs bring together global research evidence, local evidence and context-specific knowledge to inform deliberations about health policies and programmes.
Hilal, Nadeen, El-Jardali, Fadi, Jamal, Diana, Chakhtoura, Marlene, El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ghada   +4 more
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Obesity and injury in the National Hospital Morbidity Database [PDF]

, 2013
This report studies the feasibility of using the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) to investigate the relationship between obesity and hospitalised injury in Australia.It concludes that the NHMD does not currently provide a reliable basis for

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Farm Commodity Policy and Obesity [PDF]

Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making fattening foods relatively cheap and abundant and, symmetrically, that taxing “unhealthy” commodities or subsidizing “healthy ...
Alston, Julian M., Okrent, Abigail M.
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Consumer Heterogeneity: Does It Affect Policy Responses to the Obesity Epidemic? [PDF]

The fight against obesity in the U.S. has become a priority area for policy makers due to the additional health risks and health care costs. In developing policy to lower obesity rates, it is important to accurately characterize the impact that exercise,
Lyford, Conrad P., Chidmi, Benaissa, Funtanilla, Margil, Belasco, Eric J.   +3 more
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