RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Preventing noncommunicable diseases through structural changes in urban environments
A1 Franco Tejero, Manuel
A1 Bilal Álvarez, Usama
A1 Diez-Roux, Ana V
K1 Social epidemiology
K1 Chronic diseases
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 Medicina
K1 Medicine
K1 Ciencias de la salud
K1 Health sciences
AB The primary determinants of disease are mainly economic and social, and therefore its remedies must also be economic and social. Medicine and politics cannot and should not be kept apart. Rose1To achieve [a reduction in overweight and obesity] is perhaps the major public health and societal challenge of the century. Potential strategies include [….] redesign of built environments to promote physical activity, changes in food systems, restrictions on aggressive promotion of unhealthy drinks and foods to children and economic strategies such as taxation. Willet2
PB BMJ Publishing Group
SN 0143-005X
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20921
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20921
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 09-dic-2023