Abstract
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity in Serbia: Data from 2013 National Health Survey.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to ELSI in Science and Genetics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology
Prevalence of the obesity in the world in 2014 reached 11% of men and 15% of women (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, 2016), and it is assessed that 38% of the world adult population will be overweight up to 2030, and 20% will be obese (Hruby and Hu, 2015) In the USA more than of a third of the adult population is obese (35%), but more than of a two-thirds of population is overweight (69%) (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, 2016)
Obesity represents a risk factor for the occurrence of numerous chronic noncontagious diseases, such as cardiovascular, diabetes mellitus of type 2, carcinomas; it results in the increase in the mortality rate all over the world (National Institutes of Health, 1998; Whitlock et al, 2009; World Health Organization, 2009; Stankovicand Jašovic-Gaši, 2010; Wormser et al, 2011)
Summary
Overweight and obesity represent the significant public health problem (Averett et al, 2008; Sánchez et al, 2017). Overweight and obesity were correlated with the occurrence of numerous chronic diseases, contributing to an increase in total morbidity and mortality, as well as to the serious economic pressure of a family and the increase in costs within a society worldwide (Mc Donald et al, 2015; Wang et al, 2016). Obesity represents a risk factor for the occurrence of numerous chronic noncontagious diseases, such as cardiovascular, diabetes mellitus of type 2, carcinomas; it results in the increase in the mortality rate all over the world (National Institutes of Health, 1998; Whitlock et al, 2009; World Health Organization, 2009; Stankovicand Jašovic-Gaši, 2010; Wormser et al, 2011). Socio-economic differences are obvious in nutrition, giving an explanation for the presence of social inequalities in health (Alkerwi et al, 2012). The main concern of the public health should be both social inequality and diet quality in order to acquire the healthy dietary behaviors (Alkerwi et al, 2015)
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