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Overweight and Aerobic Fitness in Children in the United States/Mexico Border Region.
To study overweight and aerobic fitness among children in the third and fourth grades of elementary schools in a city in the United States of America (El Paso, Texas) and a city in Mexico (Chihuahua, Chihuahua) that are on or near the border between those two countries, and to compare the results from those two cities with earlier findings for other children in the United States. (Rev Panam Salud Pública 2004, 15 (4):262-271) (You can purchase this article)
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The Obesity Epidemic in the Americas: Making Healthy Choices the Easiest Choices
To study overweight and aerobic fitness among children in the third and fourth grades of elementary schools in a city in the United States of America (El Paso, Texas) and a city in Mexico (Chihuahua, Chihuahua) that are on or near the border between those two countries, and to compare the results from those two cities with earlier findings for other children in the United States. (Rev Panam Salud Pública 2004, 15(4):278-284) (You can purchase this article)
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Obesity: diagnosis and prescription for action in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Obesity has been the silent global epidemic of the last 30 years. This paper will briefly outline the dimensions of the problem in the English-speaking Caribbean; its enormous impact on health, quality of life, morbidity, mortality, and health care costs; its major causes; and a prescription for concerted, urgent regional action. (Rev Panam Salud Pública 2003 13(5):336-340)
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The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life
Worldwide, healthy life expectancy can be increased by 5 to 10 years if governments and individuals work together to reduce major health risks in each Region. This report examines more than risks to health and identifies interventions that would reduce these risks, thereby increasing healthy life years. The risks to health include underweight, unsafe sex, high blood pressure, tobacco, alcohol, unsafe water and sanitation, cholesterol, indoor smoke from solid fuels, iron deficiency and overweight.
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Obesity among the Poor: An Emerging problem in Latin America and the Caribbean
This chapter of the book "Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge", places obesity in the context of the demographic, epidemiological, and nutritional transition in Latin American and the Caribbean. The authors suggest that monitoring of obesity is the foundation for strategy to confront the growing prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases associated with nutrition, the authors suggest the existence of various obesities, with probable difference in geographic, ethnic, and cultural patterns, an understanding of which should be reflected in research, policy formulation, and decision-making. Page: 3 -- 10. (You can purchase this chapter)
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Factors in Obesity: Current Views
This chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, analyzes the relative influence of genetic, socioeconomic, and cultural factors in obesity and interprets studies that calculate the contribution of hereditary and environmental factors to obesity. Also includes a review of works that lay the foundation for an inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and the prevalence of obesity in women. Page: 23 – 28 (You can purchase this chapter)
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Socioanthropological Aspects of Obesity in Poverty
This chapter of the book "Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge" discusses that dietary habits and a predisposition to obesity are created through an ongoing inter-relationship with social conditions, and depend more on the influence of economic factors than on nutritional education, because foods are chosen on the basis of price, the level of satiety they produce, and the family’s economic situation. Gender is another important aspect in the prevalence of obesity among women of low socioeconomic status. Page: 11 -- 22 (You can purchase this chapter)
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Physical Activity Patterns in Central America
This paper, a chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, describes the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the lifestyles of rural populations. Economic pressures and incentives that promote migration to urban peripheral areas determine an increase in the risk of obesity. Page: 29 – 38 (You can purchase this chapter)
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Obesity and Poverty: a Pending Challenge in Chile
In the paper, a chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, on the epidemiological transition in Chile, the author analyzes the socioeconomic, demographic, and epidemiological factors and the lifestyles associated with obesity in Chile. In addition, they describe the characteristics of risk factors for nutritionally based chronic diseases. Page: 41 – 49 (You can purchase this chapter)
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The Epidemiologic Transition in Cuba
This Chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, describes the characteristics of the epidemiological transition in Cuba in recent decades and highlights the dietary and nutritional aspects associated with it. Begin whit an analysis of the socioeconomic characteristics of the population, its educational level, access to community and health services, food marketing dynamics, the availability of food and food consumption trends, breast-feeding, dietary habits, and the morbidity and mortality profile. Page: 51 – 65 (You can purchase this chapter)
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The Epidemiologic Transition in Brazil
In this chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, the author presents the results of his research on some aspects of the nutritional transition in Brazil in recent decades. The author points out the nutritional transition in Brazil should be taken into account when establishing public health priorities and actions strategies: the prevention and control of non-communicable chronic diseases and education on food and nutrition for all socioeconomic strata must be definitively incorporated, and the supply of health foods and access to them must be promoted. Page: 67 – 76 (You can purchase this chapter)
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Epidemiologic and Demographic Transition: A Typology of Latin America and Caribbean Countries.
In this chapter of the book “Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge”, the author presents and interprets the results of an exploratory analysis of demographic and epidemiological indicators in 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The analysis is directed towards building a typology of countries that could be used to formulate a strategy for researching the trends and determinants of changes in health profiles. Page: 77 – 84 (You can purchase this chapter)
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Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity: Epidemiologic and Public Health Aspects of Their Development and Use
The author asserts that developing appropriate anthropometric indicators for obesity poses three critical questions: the objective of identifying obese or overweight people; the selection of an anthropometric indicators; and the selection of an optimum cutoff point for that indicator. (Chapter in "Obesity and Poverty: A New Public Health Challenge," 2000; pp95–100) (You can purchase this chapter)
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Obesity and Poverty: A New Public-Health Challenge
An up-to-date examination of the prevalence of obesity in Latin America and Caribbean and among the poor in developed countries. Scientific Publications,(© PAHO, 2000)
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Obesity Among the Poor: An Emerging Problem in the Region
This chapter reviews the obesity problem in the Region, its association with poverty, malnutrition and infections diseases. It informs about actions such as the PAHO-Kellogg Multicenter Project 'Diet and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean'. Pages 159-160 (Health in the Americas, © PAHO 1998 Edition, Vol.I)
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