Friday, 13 March 2015
UK Junk Food Handouts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2992448/Junk-food-firms-six-figure-handouts-funded-taxpayers-obesity-costs-Britain-50bn-year-rising-companies-including-Nestle-Pepsi-given-money-improve-products.html
Global Burden of Diseases WHO Report
http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/GlobalDALYmethods_2000_2011.pdf?ua=1
http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/about/en/
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A consistent and comparative description of the burden of
diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them is an
important input to health decision-making and planning processes.
Information that is available on mortality and health in populations in
all regions of the world is fragmentary and sometimes inconsistent.
Thus, a framework for integrating, validating, analysing and
disseminating such information is needed to assess the comparative
importance of diseases, injuries and risk factors in causing premature
death, loss of health and disability in different populations. Countries
can combine this type of evidence along with information about policies
and their costs to decide how to set their health agenda.
The first GBD 1990 study quantified the health effects of more than 100 diseases and injuries for eight regions of the world in 1990. It generated comprehensive and internally consistent estimates of mortality and morbidity by age, sex and region. The study also introduced a new metric – the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) – as a single measure to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors. The DALY is based on years of life lost from premature death and years of life lived in less than full health. This study was updated by WHO for the years 2000-2002 and included a more extensive analysis of the mortality and burden of disease attributable to 26 global risk factors using a consistent analytic framework known as Comparative Risk Factor Assessment (CRA). The WHO estimates were subsequently updated for the year 2004, see The global burden of disease: 2004 update and the Global health risks reports.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and other academic partners have collaborated on a new GBD 2010, published on 14 December 2012, which provides regional estimates of deaths and DALYs (using a new method for calculation of DALYs) for the years 1990, 2005 and 2010. These estimates contributed to WHO global health estimates which were published in 2013.
WHO has prepared a comprehensive and consistent set of DALY estimates for years 2000–2012, consistent with and incorporating UN agency, interagency and WHO estimates for population, births, all-cause deaths and specific causes of death as well as WHO estimates for some specific diseases and analyses carried out for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. A summary of methods is available here. Regional cause-specific DALY estimates for the year 2000 and 2012 are available for download here.
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http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/about/en/
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About the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project
The first GBD 1990 study quantified the health effects of more than 100 diseases and injuries for eight regions of the world in 1990. It generated comprehensive and internally consistent estimates of mortality and morbidity by age, sex and region. The study also introduced a new metric – the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) – as a single measure to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors. The DALY is based on years of life lost from premature death and years of life lived in less than full health. This study was updated by WHO for the years 2000-2002 and included a more extensive analysis of the mortality and burden of disease attributable to 26 global risk factors using a consistent analytic framework known as Comparative Risk Factor Assessment (CRA). The WHO estimates were subsequently updated for the year 2004, see The global burden of disease: 2004 update and the Global health risks reports.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and other academic partners have collaborated on a new GBD 2010, published on 14 December 2012, which provides regional estimates of deaths and DALYs (using a new method for calculation of DALYs) for the years 1990, 2005 and 2010. These estimates contributed to WHO global health estimates which were published in 2013.
WHO has prepared a comprehensive and consistent set of DALY estimates for years 2000–2012, consistent with and incorporating UN agency, interagency and WHO estimates for population, births, all-cause deaths and specific causes of death as well as WHO estimates for some specific diseases and analyses carried out for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. A summary of methods is available here. Regional cause-specific DALY estimates for the year 2000 and 2012 are available for download here.
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Weight Bias Stigma by Rebecca Puhl
Weight bias and stigma .
Paul Murphy
Obesity Thunder Bay
Mission Statement
March 2, 2015
Obesity Thunder Bay works to
confront the issue of obesity through “SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY.”
To effect social change through advocacy, research, education, and the
elimination of unhealthy food environments.
We are a working think tank and
welcome individuals and agencies to assist in our endeavor to promote healthy
communities, and individuals. Please add your voice to the development of a new
model that may create a comprehensive action plan to improve community health.
The goal is to conduct a free trial on the frameworks of our model.
Obese people are not the enemy.
Please stop by the main site to explore the countless resources available. We
need a community driven action plan. One with Integrity and Dignity. Volunteers
are always welcomed.
Our model is called ,Shared Accountability
and this project is 100 % not for profit.
www.obesitythunderbay.ca
http://obesitythunderbay4health.blogspot.ca/
http://paulmurphy4.blogspot.ca/
pauljumrphy22@gmail.com
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Monday, 9 March 2015
Is Soda the New Tobacco? Part 1-2-3-4
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0420r7AqDwI
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI7-OA04AWY
Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTEsaE2r2E
Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgsAA51c9qA
Is Soda the New Tobacco? Part 1
Published on Oct 21, 2014
Stanton
Glantz, PhD, has spent nearly 40 years battling the tobacco industry
over local policies. Many victories later, smoking behavior has
completely changed, and declining smoking rates are a huge public health
success. His experience working on these health initiatives lend
insight into the new battleground of the soda fight.
Friday, 6 March 2015
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Soft drink tax could improve health of the nation
http://monash.edu/news/show/soft-drink-tax-could-improve-health-of-the-nation
The article highlites the benefits of raising taxes on sweetened beverages and helps to identify possible health outcomes.
Paul Murphy
The article highlites the benefits of raising taxes on sweetened beverages and helps to identify possible health outcomes.
Paul Murphy
Monday, 2 March 2015
The extra costs of extra weight for older adults Video
Published on Feb 27, 2015
Lifelong
obesity, now common in the U.S., is beginning to change how Americans
age. Along Alabama's Gulf Coast, one in three adults is obese, and many
who have lived with the negative health effects of excess weight are
entering their senior years. Special correspondent Sarah Varney of
Kaiser Health News reports on the added costs, disabilities and
challenges for older obese patients.
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