Obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases list of publications

The documents and articles listed below can be accessed, downloaded, or ordered from the WHO bookshop.

• Waist Circumference and Waist–Hip Ratio (2011)
  Report of a WHO Expert Consultation, Geneva, 8-11 December 2008
• Special issue - Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases: scientific background papers of the joint WHO/FAO expert consultation, Geneva, 28 January - 1 February 2002 (2004)
  Public Health Nutrition, Vol 7, No. 1(A), Supplement 1001, February 2004
• Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases (2003)
  Report of a joint WHO/FAO expert consultation, 28 January - 1 February 2002, Geneva, Switzerland (WHO Technical Report Series 916)
• Programming of chronic disease by impaired fetal nutrition (2002)
  Evidence and implications for policy and intervention strategies
• Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic (2000)
  Report of a WHO Consultation (WHO Technical Report Series 894)
• Redefining obesity and its treatment (2000)
• Diet, nutrition, and the prevention of chronic diseases (1990)
  Report of a WHO Study Group meeting held in Geneva from 6-13 March 1989 (WHO Technical Report Series 797)

Regional publications

• Framework for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: working document (2010)
  pdf, 1.52Mb
• The challenge of obesity in the WHO European Region and the strategies for response (2007)
• Legislative Interventions to Prevent and Decrease Obesity in Pacific Island Countries (2006)
  (David Clarke and Tim McKenzie, Allen & Clarke, Policy and Regulatory Specialists Limited) Report prepared for WHO Western Pacific Regional Office

• Report of the FAO/SPC/WHO Pacific Islands food safety and quality consultation (2003)
  Nadi, Fiji, 11-15 November 2002
• Using domestic law in the fight against obesity (2003)
  An introductory guide for the Pacific
• Diet, food supply and obesity in the Pacific (2003)
• Ministerial Round Table on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (2003)
  Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, fifty-third session, Kyoto, Japan, 16-20 September 2002
• Obesity in the Pacific: too big to ignore (2002)
  Based on the outcome of the workshop on Obesity Prevention and Control Strategies in the Pacific, Samoa, September 2000
• Workshop on obesity prevention and control strategies in the Pacific (2002)
  Apia, Samoa, 26-29 September 2000
• Obesity and poverty: a new public health challenge (2000)
• Redefining obesity and its treatment (2000)
• Nutrition in developmental transition in South-East Asia (1992)

Peer-reviewed articles

• News and Information: WHO global database on body mass index (BMI)
  pdf, 50kb
  An interactive surveillance tool for monitoring nutrition transition
  Public Health Nutrition, Vol 9, No. 5, 658-660, August 2006
• Overweight and obesity - a new nutrition emergency?
  SCN News, Number 29, 3-4 Geneva, late 2004 - early 2005
• Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies
  pdf, 561kb
  WHO Expert Consultation
  The Lancet, Vol 363, 157-63, January 2004

Related publications

• Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health
  May 2004: final strategy document and resolution

Nutrition labels and health claims: the global regulatory environment (2004)

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