Concept information
Preferred term
government agencies
Definition
- Although governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels play an important role in issues related to obesity in the United States, not everyone approves of the current level of involvement. Some feel that governmental involvement in public health should be restricted to matters such as providing municipal water treatment and monitoring communicable diseases, and that the government should not be involved in diseases that have a strong volitional or lifestyle component, while others feel that the governmental role should be greatly increased, in recognition of the societal costs of obesity and because they do not see the purpose in drawing a distinction between infectious and chronic diseases, both of which are harmful to human health. [Source: Encyclopedia of Obesity; Government Agencies]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/government_agencies
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