Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care
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Book Description
This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service usersâ overweight and obesity, and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19. Obesity and associated health problems represent a growing health burden around the world, with rates throughout Europe increasing sharply over the last forty years, second only to the United States and closely followed by many nations in Asia.
The book will be an invaluable manual for general practice, primary care and community clinicians, practice and community nurses and dietitians and a go-to reference for health professionals across all medical specialties and related support services, as well as medical education, public health and social care worker professionals.
Table of Contents
Disclaimer
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Focus on Overweight and Obesity as a Priority
1. The Scale of the Problemă»Overweight and Obesity
2. Managing Child Overweight and Obesity
3. Managing Adult Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care
4. Managing Diabetes and Prediabetes
5. Digital Approaches to Weight Management
6. Different Dietary Approaches
7. Alternative Approaches: Behavioural Therapy, Physical Activity and Other Techniques to Support Planned Weight Loss
8. Drug Therapy for Obesity
9. Surgical Treatments of Obesity
10. Calculating the Costs of Overweight and Obesity
11. Successful Patient Storiesă»Learning from Them
Appendix 1. Shared Management Plan for a Person Who Is Overweight or Obese and Already Motivated to Reduce WeightâSigned Up to an Interactive Text Messaging Service
Appendix 2. Useful Resources
Index
Editor(s)
Biography
Ruth Chambers FRCGP, MD, OBE is a retired general practitioner with over 40 yearsâ experience. She is an Honorary Professor at Staffordshire University and Keele University, UK.
Paula Stather has over 20 yearsâ of management experience within Primary Care and has worked more recently as project co-ordinator for an NHS funded Digital Reach and Digital Inclusion project.