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Carlos Augusto Monteiro
Researcher at University of São Paulo
Publications - 406
Citations - 32879
Carlos Augusto Monteiro is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 369 publications receiving 27114 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlos Augusto Monteiro include Federal University of Pernambuco & University of Warwick.
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Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries
Rob Moodie,David Stuckler,Carlos Augusto Monteiro,Nick Sheron,Bruce Neal,Thaksaphon Thamarangsi,Paul Lincoln,Sally Casswell +7 more
TL;DR: This paper assess the eff ectiveness of self-regulation, public-private partnerships, and public regulation models of interaction with unhealthy commodity industries and conclude that unhealthy commodity industry should have no role in the formation of national or international NCD policy.
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Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges.
Maria Inês Schmidt,Bruce Bartholow Duncan,Gulnar Azevedo e Silva,Ana Maria Menezes,Carlos Augusto Monteiro,Sandhi Maria Barreto,Dóra Chor,Paulo Rossi Menezes +7 more
TL;DR: Brazil has implemented major policies for the prevention of NCDs, and its age-adjusted NCD mortality is falling by 1·8% per year, however, the unfavourable trends for most major risk factors pose an enormous challenge and call for additional and timely action and policies.
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Socioeconomic status and obesity in adult populations of developing countries: a review.
TL;DR: The results of this review reinforce the urgent need to include obesity prevention as a relevant topic on the public health agenda in developing countries and improve the access of all social classes in these countries to reliable information on the determinants and consequences of obesity.
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Ultra‐processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system
TL;DR: It is proposed here that the main driving force now shaping the global food system is transnational food manufacturing, retailing and fast food service corporations whose businesses are based on very profitable, heavily promoted ultra‐processed products, many in snack form.
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The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing.
Carlos Augusto Monteiro,Geoffrey Cannon,Jean-Claude Moubarac,Renata Bertazzi Levy,Maria Laura da Costa Louzada,Patrícia Constante Jaime +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the ever-increasing production and consumption of ultra-processed products is a world crisis, to be confronted, checked and reversed as part of the work of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and its Decade of Nutrition.