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Rob Moodie
Other affiliations: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Save the Children ...read more
Bio: Rob Moodie is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Health promotion. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 50 publications receiving 3437 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Moodie include Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS & Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.
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University of Auckland1, Union for International Cancer Control2, Pan American Health Organization3, Imperial College London4, Commonwealth Secretariat5, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease6, Massey University7, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development8, International Diabetes Federation9, World Bank10, Brigham and Women's Hospital11, University of Ottawa12, University of London13, University of Sydney14, National Heart Forum15, University of Melbourne16, World Heart Federation17, Public Health Foundation of India18, University of Southampton19, Harvard University20, Yonsei University21
TL;DR: The Lancet NCD Action Group and the NCD Alliance propose five overarching priority actions for the response to the crisis and the delivery of five priority interventions--tobacco control, salt reduction, improved diets and physical activity, reduction in hazardous alcohol intake, and essential drugs and technologies.
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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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TL;DR: The realities of the situation are presented by answering four questions: is there really a global crisis of NCDs; how is NCD a development issue; are affordable and cost-effective interventions available; and do the authors really need high-level leadership and accountability?
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TL;DR: Sport is increasingly used as a vehicle for the promotion of range of ‘risky consumption’ products and how these strategies may influence product consumption raises important ethical and health policy questions about the extent and impact of saturation and incidental marketing strategies on health and wellbeing.
Abstract: To investigate the alcohol, gambling, and unhealthy food marketing strategies during a nationally televised, free to air, sporting series in Australia.
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TL;DR: It is argued that significant government intervention is needed to correct this market failure, as has been done for other major health problems, and that expecting adults and children to make food and activity choices in their own best long-term interests is demonstrably flawed.
Abstract: 'Obesogenic' products, such as energy dense foods, passive entertainment products, cars, and labour-saving devices, are widely available and heavily promoted. Because they are highly consumed and very profitable, obesity becomes the inevitable consequence of their commercial successes. Contemporary market forces heavily favour behaviours for short-term preferences (i.e. over-consumption and underactivity) over long-term preferences (i.e. healthy weight) and this is especially true for children. Hence, if the market, as the main mechanism for determining choices, results in outcomes, which make our children worse off, as is occurring with childhood obesity, then the market has failed to sustain and promote social and individual goals. This is a serious market failure. In the current obesogenic environment, expecting adults, let alone children, to make food and activity choices in their own best long-term interests is, therefore, demonstrably flawed. We argue that significant government intervention is needed to correct this market failure, as has been done for other major health problems.
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TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 aimed to estimate annual deaths for the world and 21 regions between 1980 and 2010 for 235 causes, with uncertainty intervals (UIs), separately by age and sex, using the Cause of Death Ensemble model.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the effect of physical inactivity on these major non-communicable diseases by estimating how much disease could be averted if inactive people were to become active and to estimate gain in life expectancy at the population level.
6,119 citations
01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the effect of physical inactivity on these major non-communicable diseases by estimating how much disease could be averted if inactive people were to become active and to estimate gain in life expectancy at the population level.
Abstract: Summary Background Strong evidence shows that physical inactivity increases the risk of many adverse health conditions, including major non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and breast and colon cancers, and shortens life expectancy. Because much of the world's population is inactive, this link presents a major public health issue. We aimed to quantify the effect of physical inactivity on these major non-communicable diseases by estimating how much disease could be averted if inactive people were to become active and to estimate gain in life expectancy at the population level. Methods For our analysis of burden of disease, we calculated population attributable fractions (PAFs) associated with physical inactivity using conservative assumptions for each of the major non-communicable diseases, by country, to estimate how much disease could be averted if physical inactivity were eliminated. We used life-table analysis to estimate gains in life expectancy of the population. Findings Worldwide, we estimate that physical inactivity causes 6% (ranging from 3·2% in southeast Asia to 7·8% in the eastern Mediterranean region) of the burden of disease from coronary heart disease, 7% (3·9–9·6) of type 2 diabetes, 10% (5·6–14·1) of breast cancer, and 10% (5·7–13·8) of colon cancer. Inactivity causes 9% (range 5·1–12·5) of premature mortality, or more than 5·3 million of the 57 million deaths that occurred worldwide in 2008. If inactivity were not eliminated, but decreased instead by 10% or 25%, more than 533 000 and more than 1·3 million deaths, respectively, could be averted every year. We estimated that elimination of physical inactivity would increase the life expectancy of the world's population by 0·68 (range 0·41–0·95) years. Interpretation Physical inactivity has a major health effect worldwide. Decrease in or removal of this unhealthy behaviour could improve health substantially. Funding None.
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TL;DR: Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures, which increases the urgency for evidence-creating policy action, with a priority on reduction of the supply-side drivers.
3,817 citations