Global Public Health
Title
Course
PUBH-100
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2017
Disciplines
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition | Public Health | Public Health Education and Promotion
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
The country of Kuwait is known for their extremely high prevalence of obesity. It is a major public health issue for people of both genders. For men, the prevalence for obesity is 36 percent and 48 percent for women. A type of intervention that is often used to fix this problem is stomach stapling: the process of making the stomach smaller to reduce the amount of food intake. If children can start becoming more educated about this issue early on in their lifetime, the prevalence of obesity might not be so high in years to come.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
DiFiori, Sabrina. "Kuwait : Obesity" (2017). Global Public Health.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/pubh100global/6