Download The Obesity Epidemic and Its Management: A Textbook for Primary Healthcare Professionals on the Understanding, Management and Treatment of Obesity Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2009-12-01
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0853697868
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

The Obesity Epidemic and Its Management pdf
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This is a text for practicing pharmacists on the understanding, management and treatment of Obesity. Obesity is an important risk factor for a number of chronic conditions such as heart disease, stroke, some cancers and type two diabetes. It is responsible for more than 9000 premature deaths a year in England alone and is a growing problem both among adults and children especially in the UK and USA. Community pharmacists now have an increasingly important role in public health. The increased health promotion responsibility under the new contract in the UK and improved consultation facilities now available means that a book such as this is very timely. This text focuses on pharmacists care with the first part concentrating on the background and epidemiology of the problem, the current rates of obesity and the facts, also linking obesity with the emergence of potential public health crisis. Part two of the text focuses on the prevention of obesity including prevention on government level Download The Obesity Epidemic and Its Management for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download The Obesity Epidemic and Its Management: A Textbook for Primary Healthcare Professionals on the Understanding, Management and Treatment of Obesity pdf