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050 00 $aRC628$b.H295 2007
245 00 $aHandbook of obesity prevention :$ba resource for health professionals /$cShiriki Kumanyika, Ross C. Brownson, editors ; foreword by Dr. David Satcher.
260 $aNew York :$bSpringer,$cc2007.
300 $axxvi, 537 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhy obesity prevention? -- What is obesity? Definitions matter -- Descriptive epidemiology of obesity in the United States -- Costs of obesity -- Obesity prevention concepts and frameworks -- Consumer perspectives and consumer action -- The role of government in preventing obesity -- Planning and the built environment -- The food industry role in obesity prevention -- Media, marketing and advertising and obesity -- Global context of obesity -- Organizational change for obesity prevention-perspectives, possibilities and potential pitfalls -- Community-based approaches to obesity prevention: the role of environmental and policy change -- Health care system approaches to obesity -- Workplace approaches to obesity prevention -- Obesity prevention in school and group child care settings -- Individual behavior change -- Obesity risk factors and prevention in early life: pre-gestation through infancy -- Obesity prevention during preschool and elementary school-age years -- Obesity prevention during preadolescence and adolescence -- Obesity prevention during adulthood -- Obesity prevention: charting a course to a healthier future.
650 0 $aObesity$xPrevention.
650 2 $aObesity$xprevention & control
700 1 $aKumanyika, Shiriki Kinika,$d1945-
700 1 $aBrownson, Ross C.