[EQ] The challenge of obesity in the WHO European Region and the strategies for response

The challenge of obesity in the WHO European Region and the strategies for response

 

Edited by:

Francesco Branca, Haik Nikogosian and Tim Lobstein

WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007

 

Available online PDF file [339p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/document/E90711.pdf

 

“……In response to the emerging challenge of the obesity epidemic, the WHO Regional Office for Europe organized the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Counteracting Obesity, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey on 15–17 November 2006.

This book collects the papers that were written by a large group of experts in public health, nutrition and medicine to provide background for the Conference; a smaller book already published by the Regional Office summarizes many of their conclusions.1 Both this book and the summary illustrate the dynamics of the epidemic and its impact on public health throughout the European Region. In particular, the obesity epidemic’s rapid expansion to the countries in the eastern half of the Region causes great concern, as they now suffer from a double burden of disease linked to both under- and overnutrition….”

 

Content

Foreword

1. Current prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity

2. Impact of obesity on health

3. Economic consequences of obesity

4. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, physical fitness and obesity

5. Dietary determinants of obesity

6. Effects of early nutrition on development of obesity

7. Dietary patterns in Europe

8. Microenvironmental determinants of dietary patterns

9. Macroenvironmental determinants of food consumption

10. Promotional marketing of food

11. Macro- and microenvironmental determinants of physical activity

12. Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Europe: issues and policy implications

13. Actions and policies to prevent obesity

14. Economic instruments for reducing consumption of energy-dense foods

15. Actions and policies to promote physical activity

16. Designing and developing a strategy to prevent obesity

17. Preventing obesity: selecting the best investments

18. Involving different stakeholders

19. Monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes

20. National policies in the European Region

21. Implementing the WHO Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health: analysis of global progress

22. Effective treatment: an evidence base for the treatment of overweight and obesity

23. Obesity policy: the next steps
Annex 1. Recent reviews on obesity prevention

 

 

 

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