Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

ISBN-13: 9781032189475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 180 str.

Ruth Chambers; Paula Stather

Opis

This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service users’ overweight and obesity, and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19.

Recenzje

"Overweight matters and obesity are concisely discussed with a special focus on prevalence, etiology, impact, and suggested interventions. This book is highly valuable for healthcare and social care professionals. The material is highly informative, digestible, and easily incorporated into practice across many different settings."

-Mary Alice Becraft, BSN, Doody Review

Spis treści

Disclaimer. Acknowledgements. About the Editors. About the Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Introduction: Focus on Overweight and Obesity as a Priority. The Scale of the Problem・Overweight and Obesity. Managing Child Overweight and Obesity. Managing Adult Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care. Managing Diabetes and Prediabetes. Digital Approaches to Weight Management. Different Dietary Approaches. Alternative Approaches: Behavioural Therapy, Physical Activity and Other Techniques to Support Planned Weight Loss. Drug Therapy for Obesity. Surgical Treatments of Obesity. Calculating the Costs of Overweight and Obesity. Successful Patient Stories・Learning from Them. Appendix 1: Shared Management Plan for a Person Who Is Overweight or Obese and Already Motivated to Reduce Weight—Signed Up to an Interactive Text Messaging Service. Appendix 2: Useful Resources. Index.