Concept information
Preferred term
obesity as a public health crisis
Definition
- The United States is not alone in the obesity epidemic. Worldwide, children and adults are chronically overweight and obese. [Source: Encyclopedia of Obesity; Obesity as a Public Health Crisis]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- access to nutritious foods
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Sports Medicine
- American Diabetes Association
- American Dietetic Association
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association
- American Obesity Association
- American Society for Bariatric Surgery
- built environment
- Center for Maternal and Child Health
- Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- child obesity programs
- community level initiatives to prevent obesity
- community programs to prevent obesity
- Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health and Social Services
- economics of obesity
- Expanded Food and Nutrition Program
- federal initiatives to prevent obesity
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food Guide Pyramid
- food labeling
- food marketing to children
- Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
- government agencies
- healthy eating index
- healthy people 2010
- National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
- National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Eating Disorders Association
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institutes of Health
- North American Association for the Study of Obesity
- obesity in schools
- Office of Dietary Supplements
- Office of Minority Health
- policy to prevent obesity
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
- safety of urban environments
- school initiatives to prevent obesity
- Shape-Up America!
- social marketing and obesity
- state and local initiatives to prevent obesity
- taxation of unhealthy foods
- toxic environment
- weight control information network
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/obesity_as_a_public_health_crisis
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