The Health Impact of Smoking and Obesity and What to Do About It / / Hans Krueger, Dan Williams, Barbara Kaminsky, David McLean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Krueger, Hans,; Kaminsky, Barbara,; Williams, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Despite significant progress due to public health campaigns and other policy efforts, smoking continues to be a serious health threat throughout the world. In addition, sedentary lifestyles, poor diet, and obesity continue to be major causes of chronic diseases. The Health Impact of Smoking and Obesity and What to Do about It synthesizes a vast quantity of recent data on the benefits and cost-effectiveness of both clinical and public health interventions in addressing the risk factors of smoking and obesity.A large proportion of chronic disease is preventable. The Health Impact of Smoking and Obesity and What to Do about It provides solid evidence and practical advice to health care planners, decision-makers, and frontline providers alike. The volume discusses various approaches to measuring disease burden and setting health care targets, and provides a summary of interventions of proven effectiveness. Taking into account the vital lessons learned from the experience of tobacco control over forty years, and focusing on the current state of the evidence for obesity control, the study stresses the importance of comprehensive strategies that deal with both individual behaviour changes and the need to encourage social contexts that enhance healthy choices and lifestyles.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PART ONE. Taking Steps towards Health -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. Introduction: Planning to Reduce the Risks of Chronic Disease -- 2. Risk Factors and the Burden of Disease -- 3. The Economic Cost of Risk Factors -- 4. Risk Factor Targets around the World -- 5. The Benefits of Reducing Risk Factors -- PART TWO. From Setting to Achieving Targets -- Introduction to Part Two -- 6. Tobacco Control Evidence (1): Preventing Uptake -- 7. Tobacco Control Evidence (2): Smoking Cessation -- 8. Tobacco Control Evidence (3): Second-Hand Smoke, Specific Populations, and a Summary -- 9. Tobacco Control Evidence (4): Cost-Effectiveness -- 10. Lessons from the Tobacco Wars -- PART THREE. One Risk to Rule Them All -- Introduction to Part Three -- 11. Obesity and Tobacco Control: New Territory and Established Pathways -- 12. Obesity Control Evidence (1): Reducing Energy Intake -- 13. Obesity Control Evidence (2): Increasing Energy Expenditure -- 14. Obesity Control Evidence (3): Combined Approaches, Cost-Effectiveness, and a Compendium -- 15. Important Issues in Obesity Control -- 16. Collaborating for Health -- 17. Conclusion: Four Fundamentals for Reducing Risk Factors -- Notes -- Index