医疗保健专业人员

Healthcare professionals play a critical role in tackling the obesity crisis. This World Obesity Day, we are calling on the health workforce to lead the way in delivering compassionate, evidence-based obesity care.

Calls to Action:

In Health Systems

To recognise obesity as a disease and establish monitoring and surveillance systems
To integrate and scale-up obesity prevention and management services within NCD programs, focusing on primary health care
To include access to primary, secondary and tertiary obesity services in insurance and universal health coverage packages
To resource and train the health workforce to deliver people-centred obesity care

SOCIAL MEDIA EXAMPLES

We need to recognise obesity as both a disease and a driver of other diseases. Why is this so important? As obesity increases, so do the rates of other diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.Click here to find out more worldobesityday.org

Taking action on obesity is a critical step in reducing the global burden of other chronic diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. It’s time health systems recognise obesity as a disease and establish routine monitoring for people at risk. Find out how changing systems leads to healthier lives here worldobesityday.org

Taking action on obesity is a critical step in reducing the global burden of other chronic diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. It’s time public health systems integrate and scale-up obesity prevention and management services within NCD programs. Find out how changing systems leads to healthier lives here worldobesityday.org

We need to recognise obesity as both a disease and a driver of other diseases. It’s time public health systems resource and train the health workforce to deliver people-centred obesity care, and include access to insurance and universal health coverage. Find out how changing systems leads to healthier lives here worldobesityday.org