Systematic review into city interventions to address obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity threatens to undo the improvements that have been made in life expectancy over the last two centuries. It disproportionately affects lower socioeconomic and ethnic minority groups and has become one of the most important global health challenges of the 21^stcentury. Whilst obesity is not confined to city populations, cities are home to more than half of the world's population with concentrated groups at high risk of obesity. Cities have also long been the forefront of social and technological change that has led to our current obesogenic environment. The aim of this study was to systematically identify city-wide interventions to address obesity, from which recommendations for policy makers, health system leaders and political leaders in cities could be

SUBMITTER: Danielli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910670 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature