Obesity epidemics: inevitable outcome of globalization or preventable public health challenge?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

Sudden death and sport--preventable or inevitable.

Physical exertion is not now an essential part of many people's working existence and because hard physical labour was the lot of the "labouring classes" from which many people have tried to escape by getting more genteel occupations, the correlates of exertion, heavy breathing and sweating are considered "not nice" and associated with the lower orders. A gentleman no less than a lady does not ...

Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS): Is It Preventable or Inevitable?

Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is a systemic, dysfunctional inflammatory response that requires long intensive care unit (ICU) stay. It is characterized with high mortality rate depending on the number of organs involved. It has been recognized that organ failure does not occur as an all-or-none rule, but rather a range of organ dysfunction exists resulting in clinical organ failure...

The public health challenge of obesity in North Carolina.

besity is one of the most important public health issues of our time. Just as infectious diseases threatened the health and well being of communities in the early 20th century, chronic diseases are now the greatest threat of the 21st. The risk factors for obesity, physical inactivity and poor nutrition have begun to approach the public health impact of tobacco use. The resulting rise in chronic...

Childhood obesity, unrecognised public health challenge in Nepal.

Most of emphasis in the past years had been allotted to alleviation of poverty and undernutrition in the children of Nepal. The concept of being bigger is healthier had been the conviction among the population. But it is being obliterated gradually in most part of the world because of rapid emergence of childhood obesity in the last two decades. The childhood obesity has now recognized as a glo...