Regulatory measures to fight obesity in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean and Pacific, 2015 – 2017

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Nicole Foster, Anne Marie Thow, Nigel Unwin, Miriam Alvarado, T. Alafia Samuels
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2018
• Subjects: Noncommunicable diseases; health legislation; obesity; Pacific Islands; Caribbean region; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Pacific; Tonga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.191; https://doaj.org/article/5e5ff52acd2b4c91957865311bc931ac

This report examines the experiences of Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean— Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and in the Pacific— Fiji, Nauru, and Tonga with specific governmental regulatory measures to reduce the risk of obesity and associated diet-related chronic ­noncommunicable diseases...