Overview
Although recognised clinically for some time as an important condition that increases risk of ill-health in affected individuals, it is only recently that obesity had been recognised as a population-wide problem that requires preventive action. Obesity is a major contributor to diseases and disability, the associated health costs are enormous and obesity has already reached epidemic proportions in many countries, and incidence is continuing to increase in children and adults. Disturbingly the epidemic is not confined to developed countries, with many developing countries and those in transition affected. While recognised as a major population health problem, our understanding of the causes of the epidemic is poor, there has been relatively little population-based research that has focused on the prevention of unhealthy weight gain, and as a consequence knowledge regarding how and where best to intervene is limited. Revised and updated and now part of the From Aetiology to Public Health series, Obesity Epidemiology provides a scholarly text that assists those concerned with understanding prevalence and trends in obesity; its health, social and economic consequences, the underlying causes of the obesity epidemic, the existing evidence regarding strategies to prevent obesity, and the potential of public health initiatives to impact on the population prevalence of obesity. This edition not only provides a thorough update of the material presented in the previous edition (entitled Obesity Prevention and Public Health), but also includes twelve new chapters that cover the epidemiology of obesity in children and adults, and the potential of public health approaches to its prevention. This book will be of interest to all those working in public health and epidemiology; health policy makers, and clinicians and health practitioners working in the related fields of nutrition, exercise and diabetes. About the series By looking at public health issues from a unique condition-based approach, the innovative From Aetiology to Public Health series examines top public health issues from aetiology through to public health and prevention.
Full Product Details
Author: David Crawford ,
Robert W. Jeffery ,
Kylie Ball ,
Johannes Brug
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.70cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 24.80cm
Weight: 1.002kg
ISBN: 9780199571512
ISBN 10: 0199571511
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 09 September 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Review from previous edition With obesity prevention so high on the public health and political agenda, this book is both timely and useful. Public Health The book provides an overview of the main fields of research and population-/environment-based approaches to understand and prevent obesity. ...Students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers will profit from the 'state of the science' provided in this book. Journal of Public Health This book provides strong evidence for the importance of preventing obesity, especially in children, and the need for an interdisciplinary approach across health professionals, from clinicians to policy makers, to control this epidemic. Archive of Disease in Childhood The contributors painstakingly back every fact up with statistics or trials, leading to hundreds of references and a highly evidence-based read. ... if this comprehensively researched compilation of facts and literature reviews cannot precipitate action to increase availability and accessibility of inexpensive healthy food to those on low incomes then nothing will. The Lancet The authors present an excellent overview of the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Reading this book is the first step in confronting one of the most daunting public health problems of the 21st century. Doody's Journal
Author Information
Johannes Brug worked as nutrition epidemiologist for TNO-nutrition, the main Dutch research institute for nutrition-related research (1989-1991). He was granted a fellowship from the Dutch Cancer Society and worked for this Society until 1994 after which he started his PhD research at the Department of Health Education and Promotion of Maastricht University. He obtained his PhD in Health Sciences in 1997 and subsequently worked as Associate Professor in Health Psychology and later as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Netherlands Open University. From 2000-2002 Hans Brug was Professor of Nutrition Education and Director of Education at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht University. From 2002 to early 2007 Brug was Professor of Determinants of Population Health at the Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. Hans Brug is an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioral Sciences, Deakin University, Australia.
