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Symposium report: the prevention of obesity and NCDs : challenges and opportunities for governments
Author(s) -
Lobstein Tim,
Brinsden Hannah
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
obesity reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.845
H-Index - 162
eISSN - 1467-789X
pISSN - 1467-7881
DOI - 10.1111/obr.12193
Subject(s) - non communicable disease , government (linguistics) , legislation , psychological intervention , public health , obesity , political science , business , environmental health , tobacco control , public policy , medicine , economic growth , economics , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , psychiatry , law
Summary This paper is written as a briefing document with the aim of providing support to policy‐makers and government officials tackling obesity and related non‐communicable diseases. It is based on a symposium Obesity and non‐communicable diseases: Learning from international experiences convened by the I nternational A ssociation for the S tudy of O besity (now the W orld O besity F ederation) and its policy section, the I nternational Obesity TaskForce (now W orld O besity – P olicy and P revention). The symposium discussed a wide range of proposals to tackle the consumption of unhealthy food products, including interventions in the market through fiscal policies and marketing restrictions, measures to strengthen public health legislation and measures to limit agri‐food company lobbying activities. It recognized the need for government leadership and action in order to reduce preventable deaths while improving economic performance and identified a need for governments to take a systems wide approach to tackling obesity and to work with civil society, especially to monitor the drivers of disease and to hold all stakeholders accountable for progress.