Unequal weight: equity oriented policy responses to the global obesity epidemic
- 13 December 2007
- Vol. 335 (7632), 1241-1243
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39377.622882.47
Abstract
Who cares?Dealing with inequalities in obesity requires a different policy agenda from the one currently being promoted. Action is needed that is grounded in principles of health equity. Not infrequently the medical community operates as a vanguard for progressive changes in health and social policy—for example, the US surgeon general’s call in 2001 to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity was driven by physicians.4 Similarly, key ingredients for success of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control included leadership from clinicians, the World Health Organization, and the British Medical Association.5This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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