Summary of the 2000 Surgeon General's Listening Session: Toward a National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity
| Autor: | Violet Woo, Pamela Starke-Reed, William H. Dietz, Kathryn Y McMurry, Bruce S. Schneider, Allan S. Noonan, Yvonne Jackson, Wendy L. Johnson-Taylor, John J. Whyte, Lloyd J. Kolbe, Kathy McCarty, Howell Wechsler, Van S. Hubbard, Christine B. Spain, Laura A. McNally, Richard P. Troiano, Jean Charles-Azure, Randolph F. Wykoff, Martina Vogel-Taylor, Charlene Sanders, Susan Z. Yanovski, Karen A. Donato, Jonelle Rowe, Robert J. Kuczmarski, Lynne Haverkos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Surgeon general
Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Promotion Overweight Body Mass Index Endocrinology Physicians Health care medicine Humans Industry Family Active listening Community Health Services Mass Media Obesity Session (computer science) Workplace Health Education Life Style Medical education Schools business.industry Body Weight Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health United States Call to action Health Planning Health promotion Action plan Public Health medicine.symptom business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1071-7323 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/oby.2002.176 |
| Popis: | 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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