Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Nov 2014
EditorialBehavior change, health, and health disparities: an introduction.
This Special Issue of Preventive Medicine (PM) focuses on behavior change, health, and health disparities, topics of fundamental importance to improving population health in the U. S. and other industrialized countries. While the U. ⋯ S. alone and 5 million globally. So more needs to be done, especially in economically disadvantaged populations. The same certainly applies to the challenges of the obesity epidemic, which of course is a more recent problem and understandably efforts to curtail it are in earlier stages of development.