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The applied anthropology of obesity : prevention, intervention, and identity /
"The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and polic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Chad T. Morris and Alexandra G. Lancey
- "Modernization," global influence and obesity prevention in the Republic of Palau / Chad T. Morris, Amanda Wolfe, Sarah Womack, and Stevenson Kuartei
- Applying a socio-ecological model to obesity in the Caribbean: a community-based approach at the Tapion Hospital in Castries, Saint Lucia / Colleen O'Brien Cherry and Elizabeth Serieux
- Anthropology field school insights into community-based participatory research to address food insecurity: the case of demonstration keyhole gardens in the Monteverde Zone, Costa Rica / Lillie Uyen-Loan ♯ao, Sara Arias-Steele, Emily Bissett, Constanza Carney, and Zuhra Malik
- Community approaches to obesity prevention in Brazil: the food and nutritional security paradigm / Charles Klein
- Metabolic syndrome screening and health education: are there lessons we can learn from Japan? / Amy Borovoy
- Who, what, and how?: Insights gained from a comparative approach to school-based obesity prevention efforts / Alexandra G. Lancey
- Addressing obesity and associated medical conditions in Latino immigrant communities in Southeast Georgia / John S. Luque, Moya L. Alfonso, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
- Working with low-income and Latino farmers to increase access to Oregon's local food markets using community based participatory research and public participation GIS / Margaret Everett, Betty Izumi, Scott Ellis, Alejandro Tecum, Anne Morse, and Stacey Sobell
- Religious gardens, pilgrimages, and dancing: a critique of translated interventions in a tribal community / Sean Bruna
- Considering surgical weight loss: applied anthropology and the invisible obese body / Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Bewis, and Amber Wutich
- Fat by any other name: perceptions of "obesity" in clinical settings / Deborah L. Williams, Alexandra A. Brewis, Sarah S. Trainer, and Jose Rosales Chavez
- Obesity as public policy: creating and changing the obesogenic environment / Merill Eisenberg.