Reporting statistics on undernutrition and obesity
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The epidemiologies of undernutrition and obesity are conducted using standardized metrics in very regulated ways. Bodies are physical entities with economic, social, and medical correlates, and the standardization of bodily measures of undernutrition and obesity have political and economic implications. Most recently, their use has been mostly as proxies for health and mortality risk. This chapter describes the now historical process of bodily standardization through public health anthropometry at both extremes of body size, and examines how public health reporting of undernutrition and obesity informs the discourse of both of them at governmental level, once such measures are given the status of national statistics.
2014 ◽
Vol 21
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pp. e173-e177
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2009 ◽
Vol 15
(6)
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pp. 471-478
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2020 ◽
Vol 27
(11)
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pp. 1821-1822
2015 ◽
Vol 21
(3)
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pp. 213-221
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2009 ◽
Vol 15
(6)
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pp. 479-484
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2020 ◽
Vol 27
(11)
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pp. 1823-1824