Contents: The scale of the problem - overweight and obesity; Clinical governance and the management of overweight and obesity; Managing child overweight and obesity; Managing adult overweight and obesity in primary care; Different dietary ...
Weinsier RL, Wilson LJ, Lee J. Medically safe rate of weight loss for the treatment of obesity: a guideline based on risk ... Vincent HK, Heywood K, Connelly J, Hurley RW. ... Li W, Ayers DC, Lewis CG, Bowen TR, Allison JJ, Franklin PD.
Recognizing the significance of primary health care for an effective and efficient response to the obesity epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidance on how to build capacity in the health system to deliver health ...
This book aims to make the task of tackling obesity less daunting for both patients and the health care professionals who treat them.
This book provides the reader with the education to understand the disease, the patient’s experience, and full evidence-based treatment. It also provides the opportunity to understand how to incorporate the treatment into primary care.
This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, devoted to Obesity Management, is guest edited by Dr. Mark Stephens of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for today's internal medicine and family medicine physicians, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other healthcare professionals who practice outpatient primary ...
Summary Guide for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care
The ABOM board of directors is carefully monitoring the changing climate of board certification and MOC as guided by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its member boards. The discipline of obesity medicine potentially ...
The obesity crisis in the United States disproportionately affects some demographic groups more than others.