TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to obesity advocacy
AU - Hughes, Clare
AU - Dessaix, Anita
AU - McBride, Kate
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Context: Two in three Australian adults live with overweight or obesity. The burden of associated chronic diseases including 13 types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes continues to grow. A comprehensive approach to influencing obesity policy has never been more urgent.Despite the best efforts of public health advocates and government strategies such as the National Preventive Health Strategy and National Obesity Strategy highlighting the need for a policy, regulation and interventions to support healthy eating and physical activity, rates of overweight and obesity rates among Australian adults continue to increase.
AB - Context: Two in three Australian adults live with overweight or obesity. The burden of associated chronic diseases including 13 types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes continues to grow. A comprehensive approach to influencing obesity policy has never been more urgent.Despite the best efforts of public health advocates and government strategies such as the National Preventive Health Strategy and National Obesity Strategy highlighting the need for a policy, regulation and interventions to support healthy eating and physical activity, rates of overweight and obesity rates among Australian adults continue to increase.
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871403X24001340
UR - https://ezproxy.uws.edu.au/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2024.09.034
U2 - 10.1016/j.orcp.2024.09.034
DO - 10.1016/j.orcp.2024.09.034
M3 - Article
VL - 18
SP - S14-S15
JO - Obesity Research and Clinical Practice
JF - Obesity Research and Clinical Practice
IS - 5
M1 - Suppl. 1
ER -
