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Derek Yach
Researcher at PepsiCo
Publications - 152
Citations - 13046
Derek Yach is an academic researcher from PepsiCo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Tobacco control. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 152 publications receiving 12093 citations. Previous affiliations of Derek Yach include World Economic Forum & Yale University.
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Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases
EK Amine,N.H. Baba,M. Belhadj,M. Deurenberg-Yap,A. Djazayery,T Forrestre,D.A. Galuska,S. Herman,Wpt James,Kabangu M'Buyamba,Martijn B. Katan,Timothy J. Key,Timothy J. Key,Shiriki K. Kumanyika,Jim Mann,Paula Moynihan,AO Musaiger,G.W. Olwit,Janina Petkeviciene,Andrew M. Prentice,K.S. Reddy,Arthur Schatzkin,Jacob C. Seidell,A.P. Simopoulos,S. Srianujata,N. Steyn,Boyd Swinburn,Boyd Swinburn,Ricardo Uauy,Mark L Wahlqvist,W Zhao-Su,N. Yoshiike,S. Rabenek,K Bagchi,T Cavalli-Sforza,GA Clugston,Ian Darnton-Hill,A. Ferro-Luzzi,J Leowski,Chizuru Nishida,D Nyamwaya,A Ouedraogo,P Pietinen,P Puska,Elio Riboli,Aileen Robertson,P. S. Shetty,R. Weisell,Derek Yach +48 more
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
Sarah Whitmee,Andy Haines,Chris Beyrer,Frederick Boltz,Anthony Capon,Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias,Alex Ezeh,Howard Frumkin,Peng Gong,Peter Head,Richard Horton,Georgina M. Mace,Robert Marten,Robert Marten,Samuel S. Myers,Sania Nishtar,Steven A. Osofsky,Subhrendu K. Pattanayak,Montira J Pongsiri,Cristina Romanelli,Agnes Soucat,Jeanette Vega,Derek Yach +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control.
TL;DR: A more concerted, strategic, and multisectoral policy approach, underpinned by solid research, is essential to help reverse the negative trends in the global incidence of chronic disease.
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Epidemiologic and economic consequences of the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present quantitative estimates of the epidemiological and economic impact of obesity and diabetes on developing countries, and stress the importance of creating a roadmap to guide the development of comprehensive policies involving governments and private companies.
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Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases
Abdallah S. Daar,Peter Singer,Deepa L. Persad,Stig Pramming,David R. Matthews,Robert Beaglehole,Alan Bernstein,Leszek K. Borysiewicz,Stephen Colagiuri,Nirmal Kumar Ganguly,Roger I. Glass,Diane T. Finegood,Jeffrey P. Koplan,Elizabeth G. Nabel,George Sarna,Nizal Sarrafzadegan,Richard S. Smith,Derek Yach,John I. Bell +18 more
TL;DR: The top 20 policy and research priorities for conditions such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease are revealed.