Will China’s Nutrition Transition Overwhelm Its Health Care System And Slow Economic Growth?

Popkin, Barry M.

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.1064

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“…Emerging countries are the most affected (for example, Brazil, China, and India) but several of the poorest countries of the world are implicated as well, with the exception, at least for the moment, of sub-Saharan African countries. In China, obesity levels among adults are today in excess of 20%; 90 million individuals are obese and 200 million suffer from being overweight [31]. There are now more overweight and obese people in the world than underweight people [10].…”

Section: Impacts On Nutrition Health and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating patterns and food systems: critical knowledge requirements for policy design and implementation

Guyomard¹,

Darcy‐Vrillon²,

Esnouf³

et al. 2012

Agric & Food Secur

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Eating patterns are important for building sustainable food and agricultural systems. This paper begins by presenting the main features of eating patterns worldwide. These eating patterns include the relative convergence of diets, more rapid food transition in emerging and developing countries, development of a more complex food chain, and substantial food losses and waste at distribution and final consumption stages. These patterns have negative consequences on health and the environment. The drivers of these patterns are examined to identify knowledge gaps, the filling of which should facilitate the design and implementation of actions and policies aimed at making food systems more sustainable.

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Section: Impacts On Nutrition Health and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating patterns and food systems: critical knowledge requirements for policy design and implementation

Guyomard¹,

Darcy‐Vrillon²,

Esnouf³

et al. 2012

Agric & Food Secur

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“…Una de las explicaciones al fenómeno es que en estos países la transición nutricional parece ocurrir más rápidamente entre los pobres, ya que ellos son más vulnerables a la elasticidad precio-ingreso de la demanda de alimentos, por lo tanto su consumo cambia más rápidamente cuando hay cambios en los ingresos. Aun así, su nivel educativo, su capacidad de compra de alimentos saludables y la disponibilidad de espacios y tiempo para la actividad física es menor en comparación con los estratos más ricos de sus países 27,28,29 .…”

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Exceso de peso, aspectos económicos, políticos y sociales en el mundo: un análisis ecológico

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Se analizaron las prevalencias de exceso de peso, según índice de masa corporal (IMC), en adultos y su asociación con algunas variables demográficas, socioeconómicas e índice de democracia. Se realizó un diseño ecológico que consideró un total de 105 países, con datos de IMC de 2000 a 2006. Las demás variables se obtuvieron en correspondencia con el año del dato de estado nutricional, o su referente más cercano. Se utilizaron los puntos de corte de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para IMC. Se calcularon correlaciones de Spearman y modelos de regresión múltiple. El sobrepeso y la obesidad se correlacionaron en ambos sexos con la disponibilidad energética y con el Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH) y sus variables constitutivas. En cuanto a las variables relacionadas con democracia, la correlación fue inversa y más fuerte con el nivel ponderal de los hombres. En conclusión, indicadores de condiciones de vida más favorables en los países se asociaron de forma directa con mayores prevalencias de exceso de peso poblacional, con comportamientos diferentes en función del género.

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“…In 1975, almost twice as many Brazilian women were underweight as were obese; by 1997, the proportions had reversed, with the increases in obesity concentrated among low-income women (Monteiro, Conde, & Popkin, 2004). The emergence of this socioeconomic gradient is a broader trend in Brazil (Monteiro, Conde, & Popkin, 2007) and is characteristic of many LMICs (Mendez, Monteiro, & Popkin, 2005;Popkin, 2008). An equally disturbing observation is that the prevalence of overweight and obesity in many cases is increasing far more rapidly than it did in the high-income countries decades earlier (Popkin, 2002;Popkin, 2006), setting the stage for future increases in cardiovascular disease and diabetes that will widen existing health disparities.…”

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The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects

Labonté¹,

Schrecker²

2011

Global Health and Global Health Ethics

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Will China’s Nutrition Transition Overwhelm Its Health Care System And Slow Economic Growth?

Cited by 181 publications

References 32 publications

Eating patterns and food systems: critical knowledge requirements for policy design and implementation

Eating patterns and food systems: critical knowledge requirements for policy design and implementation

Exceso de peso, aspectos económicos, políticos y sociales en el mundo: un análisis ecológico

The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects

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