Table of Contents Details Editors

Key Features

    Understanding is facilitated through:

    • Case Studies

    • Boxed examples

    • Thinking Points

    • Summary Points at ends of chapters.

    • Links to webpages, resources and further reading.

Table of Contents

1. Defining the obesity problem

2. Obesity prevalence and trends

3. The health consequences of obesity

4. Causes of obesity

5. Individual interventions to treat obesity

6. Population approaches to preventing obesity

References

Index

Details

No. of pages:
144
Language:
English
Copyright:
© 2013
Published:
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
eBook ISBN:
9780702065613
eBook ISBN:
9780702047206
Print ISBN:
9780702046346

About the editors

Angela Scriven

Angela Scriven is a Reader in Health Promotion at Brunel University in London, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the field of health promotion for over 30 years and has published widely including authoring, editing or co-editing the following books Health Promotion Alliances: Theory and Practice (1998); Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives (1996; 2001 2nd edn); Promoting Health: Global Perspectives (2005); Health Promoting Practice: The Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2005); Public Health: Social Context and Action (2007); Promoting Health: A Practical Guide (2010); Health Promotion for Health Practitioners (2010); Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice (2012). Her research is centred on the relationship between health promotion policy and practice within specific contexts. She is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), is President Elect for the Institute of Health Promotion and Education (IHPE) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).

Affiliations and Expertise

Reader in Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, London, UK
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