Gregori Dario
Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italia.
Salud Publica Mex. 2014;56 Suppl 2:s157-61.
Nutrition and related health issues are nowadays topics of general interest. The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased with alarming speed over the past twenty years, being described by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic. An evidence-based approach to public health interventions should be based on the best available information. Given the substantial investment of society in fundamental and applied health research, and the high expectations of society for reducing the burden of illness, attention to these matters should have high priority. There's an urgent need to foster the development of international standards, such as food labeling and profiling. Considering the complex network involved in obesity development, it is necessary to promote multiple-concurrent interventions, taking into account that by focusing on a single intervention in isolation, all other factors being constant, each individual policy change is likely to appear ineffective.
营养及相关健康问题如今已成为大众普遍关注的话题。在过去二十年里，超重和肥胖的患病率以惊人的速度上升，世界卫生组织将其描述为一种全球流行病。基于证据的公共卫生干预方法应基于现有的最佳信息。鉴于社会在基础和应用健康研究方面投入巨大，且社会对减轻疾病负担寄予厚望，对这些问题的关注应具有高度优先性。迫切需要促进国际标准的制定，如食品标签和成分剖析。考虑到肥胖发展所涉及的复杂网络，有必要推动多种并行干预措施，因为如果孤立地专注于单一干预措施，在所有其他因素不变的情况下，每项单独的政策变化可能都显得无效。
