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Tackling obesity requires efficient government policies

Overview of attention for article published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, April 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Tackling obesity requires efficient government policies
Published in
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, April 2012
DOI 10.1186/2045-4015-1-18
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Authors

Michele Cecchini, Franco Sassi

Abstract

Changes in food supply and eating habits, combined with a dramatic fall in physical activity, have made obesity a global epidemic. Across OECD countries, one in two adults is currently overweight and one in six is obese. Children have not been spared, with up to one in three currently overweight. Obese people are more likely to develop diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and have a shorter life expectancy than people of normal weight. A prevention strategy combining health promotion campaigns, government regulation, counseling of individuals at risk in primary care, and paying special attention to the most vulnerable, would enhance population health at an affordable cost, with likely beneficial effects on health inequalities. Failure to implement such a strategy would impose heavy burdens on future generations. The new IJHPR paper by Ginsberg and Rosenberg illustrates how particular countries can assess alternative strategies for tackling obesity in a rigorous fashion.This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/17/

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Pakistan 1 1%
Unknown 67 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 22%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Other 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 16 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 12%
Social Sciences 7 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Sports and Recreations 4 6%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 17 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 03 May 2022.
All research outputs
#4,592,736
of 24,417,958 outputs
Outputs from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
#101
of 612 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,929
of 165,473 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
#3
of 11 outputs
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