Urban agriculture is receiving increasing attention throughout the developing world, but
debate rages as to whether it is a blessing or a curse. Some see it as savior for the poor …

Cardiac rehabilitation that includes either exercise training alone or exercise training in
addition to psychosocial, risk factor management and/or educational interventions is …

Summary We used Comparative Risk Assessment methods to estimate the health effects of
alternative urban land transport scenarios for two settings—London, UK, and Delhi, India …

In recent years, we've developed a much better grasp of the biological and other factors
associated with the development of obesity. Reflecting our evolving understanding of …

Objective To evaluate the associations between population-wide loss and gain in weight
with diabetes prevalence, incidence, and mortality, as well as cardiovascular and cancer …

Cardiovascular diseases are highly preventable, yet they remain the most common cause of
death in the world. The epidemic is receding in industrialized countries; however, many low …

Objective The study aims to identify the mediating factors of the relationship between
education achievement and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in older adults. Design …

After the collapse of the Communist Bloc in the 1990s Cuba experienced a severe economic
crisis. In its drastic reduction in fuels, its negative economic growth data due to declining …

Background Childhood obesity is a 'wicked'public health problem that is best tackled by an
integrated approach, which is enabled by integrated public health policies. The …

World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially'obese', more
than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten …