Prevention of overweight and obesity undertaken by local government units in Poland

Anna Augustynowicz, Aleksandra Czerw, Mariola Borowska, Andrzej Deptała, Grażyna Dykowska and Adam Fronczak

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 5, 499-502

Abstract: Based on the estimates of World Health Organization (WHO), in European Union countries overweight or obesity affects more than 60% of men and over 50% of women. According to the nationwide European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) survey conducted in 2014, in Poland over 62% of men and nearly 46% of women carried excess weight in 2014.

Keywords: Health policy programme; Local government unit; Overweight; Obesity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.03.006

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