In a recent edition of Nature Medicine, public health leaders announce the launch of a new commission aimed at promoting equitable access to quality health information and establishing health ...

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Rowan County Public Health released its 2024 Communicable Disease and Epidemiology Annual Report last week, which outlines communicable disease trends, outbreaks and prevention initiatives. The report ...

according to the definition followed thus far. Relying solely on BMI cut-offs leads to both over- and under-diagnosis of obesity. People with excess body fat may not always have a BMI of more than 30.

Within this context, the definition can often bend to fit the situation. With the HHS, "chronic" is used to describe a public health concern for surveillance purposes. With the CMMS, the term broadly ...

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on Clinical Obesity on Jan. 16 in Baton Rouge to discuss a new approach to ...

However, BMI — a height-to-weight ratio — has long been criticized as an oversimplified and often misleading indicator of health. Under the new recommendations, obesity would be defined by a ...

Obesity affects over a billion people worldwide and remains a looming public health concern ... whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who ...

Obesity New Definition: Indian doctors have redefined obesity with new guidelines that consider the unique health challenges faced by the population. Listen to Story Indian doctors have given obesity ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple ...