scholarly journals Commentary: Understanding the epidemiology of overweight and obesity—a real global public health concern

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soowon Kim ◽  
Barry M Popkin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

scholarly journals Gambling Harm as a Global Public Health Concern: A Mixed Method Investigation of Trends in Wales

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bev John ◽  
Katy Holloway ◽  
Nyle Davies ◽  
Tom May ◽  
Marian Buhociu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Gambling Harm

Methods for identification of Candida auris, the yeast of global public health concern: A review

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mahmoudi ◽  
S. Agha Kuchak Afshari ◽  
S. Aghaei Gharehbolagh ◽  
H. Mirhendi ◽  
K. Makimura
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Candida Auris

scholarly journals Child Homicide: A Global Public Health Concern

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. e1002004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delan Devakumar ◽  
David Osrin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Child Homicide ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern

scholarly journals Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 961
Author(s):  
Ioannis Pantazopoulos ◽  
Stamatoula Tsikrika ◽  
Stavroula Kolokytha ◽  
Emmanouil Manos ◽  
Konstantinos Porpodis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
Emergency Physician ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Emergency Physicians ◽  
Public Health Concern

COVID-19 is an emerging disease of global public health concern. As the pandemic overwhelmed emergency departments (EDs), a restructuring of emergency care delivery became necessary in many hospitals. Furthermore, with more than 2000 papers being published each week, keeping up with ever-changing information has proven to be difficult for emergency physicians. The aim of the present review is to provide emergency physician with a summary of the current literature regarding the management of COVID-19 patients in the emergency department.

scholarly journals A study on prevalence of overweight and obesity in school going adolescents and its association with socio-demographic factors in Lucknow district

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 3792
Author(s):  
Sudhanshu Mishra ◽  
Pratibha Gupta ◽  
Mrinal Ranjan Srivastava ◽  
Beena Sachan ◽  
Zeashan Haider Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

Background: Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. Obesity has become a global public health issue and is widely recognized as a key risk factor for coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and many other health problems. The objectives of present study were to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity and its association with socio-demographic factors amongst school-going adolescents in Lucknow district.Methods: This study was a school-based cross-sectional study and was carried out in urban and rural areas of Lucknow, from January 2018 to June 2018. Sample size was 620. A multi-stage random sampling technique has been used to select the required sample size. Data analysis was done using software MS Office excel and SPSS 18 for windows.Results: A total of 620 adolescents were studied. Majority (82.1%) of adolescents were found to be non-overweight/obese while 17.9% were found to be overweight/obese. Majority (66.7%) of students were overweight or obese, belonging to social class I while only 15.7% students were overweight or obese belonging to social class V.Conclusions: The results of our study show that overweight/obesity continues to be a public health concern in adolescents. The current study shows that adolescent overweight and obesity are increasing even in low socio-economic status. Emphasis should be placed on awareness program for obesity prevention among school students by strengthening lifestyle change.

scholarly journals First Clinical Cases of OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Peru

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-382
Author(s):  
Adriana Morales-Moreno ◽  
José Carlos Ballena-López ◽  
Roxana Sandoval-Ahumada ◽  
Wilmer Silva-Caso ◽  
Giancarlo Pérez-Lazo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Klebsiella Pneumoniae ◽  
Clinical Response ◽  
Targeted Treatment ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Favorable Clinical Response ◽  
Systemic Infections

Background: Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) represents a global public health concern and systemic infections associated with OXA-48 carbapenemase are increasingly being reported in Latin America. Here, we present the first 2 cases of systemic infections by OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Peru. A favorable clinical response was observed after targeted treatment with colistin as a backbone.

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