Childhood Obesity: The New Tobacco
By: Klein JD and Dietz W
In: Health Affairs, 29(3), pp.388-392
Publisher: Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Overcoming the childhood obesity epidemic will require changes on the scale of a social movement similar to the shift in attitudes and regulations toward smoking and tobacco. Tobacco control became a successful public health movement because of shifts in social norms and because cigarette companies came to be perceived by many as a common enemy. In contrast, obesity advocates have not identified a common threat or mobilized grass-roots change,nor have they identified strategies that resonate across diverse settings and constituencies. Framing obesity as a common threat can lead to consensus regarding the interventions needed to achieve healthier children and communities.
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1999-2000. (2002). National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Website.
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National Black Nurses Association Pledges Its Support To First Lady Michelle Obama's Program To Eliminate Childhood Obesity
March
4, 2010, SILVER SPRING, MD-The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA)
enthusiastically endorses and supports First Lady Michelle Obama's nationwide
initiative to combat childhood obesity.
As
an organization that represents more than 150,000 nurses of color, the NBNA is
acutely aware that more than 20% of African American children are obese and
thus pre-disposed to early onset of conditions such as stroke, diabetes,
hypertension and heart disease.
"Because
of our unique role in the community, the members of the NBNA are uniquely
positioned to implement and support programs aimed at addressing this issue,"
said NBNA president, Dr. Debra A. Toney.
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collective action by black nurses to investigate, define and advocate for the
health care needs of African Americans and to implement strategies that ensure
access to health care, equal to, or above health care standards of the larger
society.
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