Open AccessGLOBAL OBESITY AND PAKISTAN
Author(s) -
Iftikhar Ahmad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gomal journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1997-2067
pISSN - 1819-7973
DOI - 10.46903/gjms/18.02.831
Subject(s) - medicine , non communicable disease , developing country , public health , double burden , obesity , environmental health , economic growth , nursing , overweight , pathology , economics
Obesity is rapidly becoming a major public health problem in many parts of the world, including Pakistan. Developed world is viewing a huge switchover from acute and communicable diseases to the chronic and non-communicable diseases. However many developing countries including Pakistan, experience the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases.