BMJ  2005;330 (16 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7496.0-d

The shift of funding should not hamper joint approaches

On page 898, Yach and colleagues propose that fighting the chronic disease epidemics that result from unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity is not all that different from fighting tobacco smoking. They argue that since the agencies that fund public health research and interventions shifted their focus from tobacco control to obesity, opportunities are being neglected for the interchange of experiences and joint approaches to these two major public health issues. The authors offer 12 lessons learnt from attempts to control tobacco smoking, and discuss how they could be used in fighting obesity.

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Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking
Derek Yach, Martin McKee, Alan D Lopez, Tom Novotny for Oxford Vision 2020
BMJ 2005 330: 898-900. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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