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

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
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Title
Obesity and what we need do about it- an interview with John Wass
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0135-0
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Authors

John Wass

Abstract

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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Other 1 6%
Other 3 19%
Unknown 3 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 44%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 6%
Sports and Recreations 1 6%
Computer Science 1 6%
Social Sciences 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 4 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2014.
All research outputs
#3,696,272
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,936
of 3,413 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,372
of 236,352 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#42
of 69 outputs
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