Web Resources: Overweight/Obesity

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: Too Many California Adults Are Tipping the Scales at an Unhealthy Weight (2005 report)

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive (2005 report)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity.  [Rockville, MD]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General; [2001].

Healthy People 2010 pages on overweight/obesity

Clinical Guidelines: Screening and Interventions for Obesity in Adults: Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Annals of Internal Medicine, 139: 933-949, 2003 (follow links for free full text)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living, Obesity and Nutrition Resource Center

"Fighting Obesity" -- editorial from British Medical Journal, June 5, 2004 (good ref list as well)

Obesity links from the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus

 

Overweight/Obesity

Overview

Contribution to overall disease burden in SF

Downstream (health consequences)

Upstream causes

What can be done?

Web resources

MEDLINE strategies

Updated April 19, 2005 • Please send feedback: brian.s.katcher@sfdph.org

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