Overview
- Project associated with the European Commission (EU emblem to appear on cover)
- Contributors drawn from Germany, Italy, Sweden, and United Kingdom
- Author bulk purchase of 200 books
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
One important reason for the multitude of research activities in this field is because physical inactivity and nutrition are significant risk factors for many common non-communicable diseases. During the past decades physical inactivity and high dietary fat intakes have become increasingly prevalent in people’s daily lives in industrialised countries. To prevent and to tackle these major diseases, there is a need for a much better understanding of the basic biological and underlying patho-physiological processes, as well as more relevant baseline data describing food intakes and physical activity habits amongst the general population.
Being aware of the importance of nutrition and physical activity for health status a multitude of projects with different scopes and methodologies has arisen. This variety makes it necessary to bring the results of these activities into a coordinated framework.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an overview on health information activities related to nutrition and physical activity projects conducted in European countries and initiated between 1990 and 2006. … The book is of interest to primarily European public health, health promotion, international health and disease prevention, and occupational health professionals as well as policy makers. … The book provides recommendations for future health information activities involving nutrition and physical activity. … is well organized, written, and referenced." (Judy A. Driskell, Journal of the American Medical Association, March, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wilhelm Kirch is Chair of the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Medical Faculty of Dresden University of Technology. He is a past president of the European Public Health Association. He published Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses (2005) with Springer, and he is editor of our forthcoming Encyclopedia of Public Health (2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nutrition and Physical Activity
Book Subtitle: Health Information Sources in EU Member States, and Activities in the Commission, WHO, and European Networks
Editors: Nicole Wolfram, Michael Rigby, Michael Sjöström, Rosa Giuseppa Frazzica, Wilhelm Kirch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74841-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74840-5
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2574-9
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74841-2
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 584
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Administration, Quality of Life Research