Safeguarding our future development: plan of action for promoting healthy weights in the Caribbean: prevention and control of childhood obesity: 2014-2019
Port of Spain; Caribbean Public Health Agency; 2014. x,35 p.
Monography
em En
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ABSTRACT
The Caribbean is in the midst of a childhood obesity epidemic. At least 1 in every 5 of our children are carrying unhealthy weights and are at risk of developing non-communicable diseases later in life. This Plan provides a comprehensive public health response to our problem. It seeks to tackle the underlying variables that produce the obesogenic environments that are fuelling the epidemic but it also supports more direct measures to effect change at the individual and community level as well as to provide clinical, family and psychosocial support for the child who is already affected by overweight/obesity. No response is however complete without giving due consideration to the capacity of the people, systems and institutions that will be called upon to deliver. Our Plan for Action therefore also includes measures to augment capacity in critical area and to effectively monitor progress and measure results.
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Peso Corporal
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Saúde do Adolescente
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Nutrição da Criança
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Nutrição do Adolescente
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Obesidade
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Monography
País de publicação:
Trinidad e Tobago