Overview: Bellagio Conference on Program and Policy Options for Preventing Obesity in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue S2, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Popkin, B ^a   Monteiro, C ^b   Swinburn, B ^c  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food policy; Lower income countries; Obesity prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARKETING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; MONITORING; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; TAX; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FOOD; ORGANIZATION; POVERTY;

BEVERAGES; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOOD; HEALTH POLICY; OBESITY; POVERTY;

EID: 84886293621     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12108     Document Type: Article

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