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Obesity and Poverty: A New Public Health Challenge is an essential source for understanding the new face of poverty in the Americas. This up-to-date examination of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the region's countries looks at these conditions' medium- and long-term harmful consequences and explores their implications for planning public health interventions.

The book analyzes how the region's countries experience the nutritional transition process that is under way worldwide, a process that is tied to the global demographic and epidemiologic transition. In this context, the increase in obesity and overweight observed in the Hemisphere coexists with a risk factor that differs from traditional risk factors seen in developed countries--the persistence or the increase of inequalities and inequities in health.

The Pan American Health Organization offers this publication to the general public and to researchers, students, communicators, and politicians charged with planning and executing activities designed to promote the population's health and well being.

For another book on this topic, see:
Winning the Food Race

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Author: International Association for the Study of Obesity
Los editores han reunido un conjunto de prestigiosos autores, cuyas contribuciones representan un fuerte llamado a enfrentar este importante desafío de la salud pública [...] Como compilación de los datos más recientes de la Región de las Américas, esta es una invalorable y más que bienvenida publicación, que brinda fehacientes pruebas de que la pobreza y la obesidad pueden coexistir.

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Preface

Introduction

Obesity and Its Economic, Sociocultural, and Environmental Determinants

Obesity among the Poor: An Emerging Problem in Latin America Manual Peña y Jorge Bacallao

Socioanthropological Aspects of Obesity in Poverty Patricia Aguirre

Factors in Obesity: Current Views Albert J. Stunkard

Physical Activity Patterns in Central America Benjamín Torún

The Epidemiologic Transition in Selected Countries: Case Studies

Obesity and Poverty: A Pending Challenge in Chile Cecilia Albala y Fernando Vío

The Epidemiologic Transition in Cuba Carmen Porrata, Arturo Rodríguez-Ojea y Santa Jiménez

The Epidemiologic Transition in Brazil Carlos Monteiro

Epidemiologic and Demographic Transition: a Typology of Latin American and Caribbean Countries Jorga Bacallao

Methodologic Aspects for Studying Obesity from a Public Health Perspective

Issues for Public Health Surveillance of Obesity: Prevalence, Incidence, and Secular Trends David F. Williamson

Anthropometirc Indicators of Obesity: Epidemiologic and Public Health Aspects of Their Development and Use John H. Himes

Factors in Intrauterine Life and Adolescence Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

Poor Fetal and Child Growth and Later Obesity and Chronic Disease: Relevance for Latin America Dirk G. Schroeder y Reynaldo Martorell

Obesity in Adolescence Manuel A. Amador