Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 511-520

  Kyle, Theodore K ^a   Dhurandhar, Emily J ^b   Allison, David B ^c  

^a Quest Diagnostics   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Chronic disease; Health care economics and organizations; Health policy; Medicalization; Obesity; Social stigma

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBESITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84994411111     PISSN: 08898529     EISSN: 15584410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2016.04.004     Document Type: Review

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