Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization ... Conversely, lowering BMI is associated with a reduction in these risks. Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care ...

The health care community has redefined the requirements for clinical obesity, noting BMI shouldn’t be the sole barometer of ...

Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of health experts. For over 75 years, obesity has been called a disease by the World Health Organization ... and health care systems to ...

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative.

The experts said they aimed to make diagnosis more precise, which could help better use healthcare ... as well as the World Obesity Federation. World Health Organization experts served on the ...

As public health experts had feared, he announced an order to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization ... such as expanding health care access and running vaccination programs ...

Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization ... and obtain an individual’s BMI. Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from ...