Obesity, eating disorders

Obesity: prevention, treatment

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Obesity Prevention

Asia

• Medicine
  • Acupuncture and weight loss in Asians: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Obesity and weight management at menopause [2017]
  • Obesity – recommendations for management in general practice and beyond [2013]

• Health Promotion International
  • A snapshot of the scope of obesity prevention practice in Australia [2015]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Action to prevent obesity and reduce its impact across the life course - RACP Position Statement on Obesity [2018]
  • Action to prevent obesity and reduce its impact across the life course - Evidence Review [2018]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Family physicians and obese patients [2017]

China

• BMC Public Health
  • Policy analysis of system responses to addressing and reversing the obesity trend in China: a documentary research [2023]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Program and Policy Options for Preventing Obesity in China [2013]

Europe

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • The H2020 "NoHoW Project": A Position Statement on Behavioural Approaches to Longer-Term Weight Management [2021]
  • The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) Endorses the Milan Charter on Urban Obesity [2021]
  • 2015 Milan Declaration: A Call to Action on Obesity - an EASO Position Statement on the Occasion of the 2015 EXPO [2016]
  • An EASO Position Statement on Multidisciplinary Obesity Management in Adults [2014]

• United European Gastroenterology
  • UEG position paper: Obesity and digestive health [2022]

Fiji

• BioMed Research International
  • Perspectives of Fijian Policymakers on the Obesity Prevention Policy Landscape [2015]

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • The Prevention and Treatment of Obesity [2014]

India

• F1000Research
  • A Scoping Review of Existing Policy Instruments to Tackle Overweight and Obesity in India: Recommendations for a Social and Behaviour Change Communication Strategy [2024]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
  • Counselling and Behaviour Modification Techniques for the Management of Obesity in Postpartum and Midlife Women: A Practical Guide for Clinicians [2022]

International

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Quality assessment of clinical guidelines for the treatment of obesity in adults: application of the AGREE II instrument [2018]

• Healthcare
  • Effectiveness of Multicomponent Interventions and Physical Activity in the Workplace to Reduce Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight: Proceedings of a Workshop [2017]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of overweight and obesity published internationally: A scoping review [2024]
  • Outcomes of the first global multidisciplinary consensus meeting including persons living with obesity to standardize patient-reported outcome measurement in obesity treatment research [2022]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Core Set of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Measuring Quality of Life in Clinical Obesity Care [2024]

Iran

• Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Health technology assessment of non-invasive interventions for weight loss and body shape in Iran [2016]

Italy

• European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • ISPRM/ESPRM guidelines on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine professional practice for adults with obesity and related comorbidities [2020]

Mexico

• Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
  • Lifestyle intervention for obesity: a call to transform the clinical care delivery system in Mexico [2019]

• Frontiers in Medicine
  • Looking for Crumbs in the Obesity Forest: Anti-obesity Interventions and Obesity-Associated Cardiometabolic Traits in the Mexican Population. History and Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses [2021]

New Zealand

• Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand
  • Weight loss: the options and the evidence [2022]

Norway

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Treatment options for morbid obesity [2020]

Qatar

• Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
  • Exploring the Role of Community Pharmacists in Obesity and Weight Management in Qatar: A Mixed-Methods Study [2021]

Republic of Korea

• PLoS ONE
  • A national survey on current clinical practice pattern of Korean Medicine doctors for treating obesity [2022]

Saudi Arabia

• Saudi Medical Journal
  • Obesity management in the Saudi population [2023]
  • The Saudi clinical practice guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults [2016]

Switzerland

• Obesity Facts
  • Measuring Success in Obesity Prevention: A Synthesis of Health Promotion Switzerland's Long-Term Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy [2015]

United Kingdom

• Advances in Therapy
  • Recommendations from a Working Group on Obesity Care Competencies for Healthcare Education in the UK: A Report by the Steering Committee [2022]

• BMC Public Health
  • Analysis of the UK recommendations on obesity based on a proposed implementation framework [2010]

• British Psychological Society
  • Psychological perspectives on obesity: Addressing policy, practice and research priorities [2019]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Tackling obesity: government strategy
  • Best practice guidance for weight management services

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery and non-surgical weight management programmes for adults with severe obesity: a decision analysis model [2021]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Digital technologies for delivering multidisciplinary weight-management services: early value assessment [2024]
  • Swallowable gastric balloon capsule for weight loss [2020]
  • Obesity: clinical assessment and management [2016]
  • Obesity in adults: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes [2016]

• Public Health England
  • Weight management interventions: standard evaluation framework

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Weight Loss Interventions to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2018]
  • Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity: Systematic Evidence Review [2017]

• American Journal of Managed Care
  • Inadequate insurance coverage for overweight/obesity management [2024]
  • Managed care considerations of weight management interventions for obesity [2022]
  • A review of current guidelines for the treatment of obesity [2022]

• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  • Key messages on obesity care from the 2023 ASPEN Physician Preconference Course: A narrative review [2024]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Supporting Obesity Prevention in Statewide Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: A Review of State Standards [2017]
  • Tools for Identifying and Prioritizing Evidence-Based Obesity Prevention Strategies, Colorado [2013]

• Current Obesity Reports
  • A Call to Reconceptualize Obesity Treatment in Service of Health Equity: Review of Evidence and Future Directions [2023]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Managing Obesity in Primary Care Practice: An Overview and Perspective from the POWER-UP Study [2013]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Treatment of Obesity in Primary Care Practice in the United States: A Systematic Review [2009]

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Managing Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Systematic Evidence Review from the Obesity Expert Panel [2013]

• Society of Behavioral Medicine
  • Educate Health Care Providers about Behavioral Treatments for Obesity [2019]
  • An Evidence-based Guide for Obesity Treatment in Primary Care [2016]

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Management of Adult Overweight and Obesity (OBE) (2020) - VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines [2020]

• Women's Preventive Services Initiative
  • Preventing Obesity in Midlife Women: A Recommendation From the Women's Preventive Services Initiative [2022]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Health service delivery framework for prevention and management of obesity [2023]

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Summary report on Developing an action plan for preventing obesity and diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Geneva, Switzerland 31 May–1 June 2016 [2017]
  • Proposed policy priorities for preventing obesity and diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2017]

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