Summary of the 2000 Surgeon General's listening session: toward a national action plan on overweight and obesity.
Obes Res
; 10(12): 1299-305, 2002 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-12490675
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To provide insight into discussions at the Surgeon General's Listening Session, "Toward a National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity," and to complement The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES On December 7 and 8, 2000, representatives from federal, state, academic, and private sectors attended the Surgeon General's Listening Session and were given an opportunity to recommend what to include in a national plan to address overweight and obesity. The public was invited to comment during a corresponding public comment period. The Surgeon General's Listening Session was also broadcast on the Internet, allowing others to view the deliberations live or access the archived files. Significant discussion points from the Listening Session have been reviewed by representatives of the federal agencies and are the basis of this complementary document.RESULTS:
Examples of issues, strategies, and barriers to change are discussed within five thematic areas schools, health care, family and community, worksite, and media. Suggested cooperative or collaborative actions for preventing and decreasing overweight and obesity are described. An annotated list of some programmatic partnerships is included.DISCUSSION:
The Surgeon General's Listening Session provided an opportunity for representatives from family and community groups, schools, the media, the health-care environment, and worksites to become partners and to unite around the common goal of preventing and decreasing overweight and obesity. The combination of approaches from these perspectives offers a rich resource of opportunity to combat the public health epidemic of overweight and obesity.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Planejamento em Saúde
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Obesidade
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2002
Tipo de documento:
Article