title: The expanding public health threat of obesity and overweight.
abstract: Obesity and overweight is a continuing public health crisis. This health threat respects no boundaries or economic strata, and is a pervasive universal threat with short- and long-term negative sequelae associated. Pharmacists and other health professionals need to structure interventions from individual patient and population-based standpoints. Documentation of effects of programmes needs to be disseminated and incorporated into educational, research and practice-based efforts.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, The University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA. jack.fincham@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jack E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Fincham
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D050177:Overweight / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D011634:Public Health