Obesity and Poverty: A New Public Health Challenge (PAHO Scientific Publications) Book

Obesity and Poverty: A New Public Health Challenge is an essential source for understanding the new face of poverty in the Americas. This up-to-date examination of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latin American and Caribbean countries looks at these conditions' medium- and long-term harmful consequences and explores their implications for planning public health interventions. Although the analysis clearly centers around the situation in the developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the discussion and the findings will be applicable to pockets of poverty found anywhere in the developed world. The book analyzes how the region's countries experience the nutritional transition process that is under way worldwide, a process that is tied to the global demographic and epidemiologic transition. In this context, the increase in obesity and overweight observed in Latin America and the Caribbean coexists with a risk factor that differs from traditional risk factors seen in developed countriesthe persistence or the increase of inequalities and inequities in health. The Pan American Health Organization offers this publication to the general public and to researchers, students, communicators, and politicians charged with planning and executing activities designed to promote the population's health and well being.Read More