Is the obesity epidemic a national security issue around the globe?
Is the obesity epidemic a national security issue around the globe?
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DOI：
10.1097/med.0b013e3283471c74
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2011-10
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Popkin BM
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Popkin BM
通过关注三个案例研究国家--美国、中国和墨西哥，了解肥胖如何影响国家安全。虽然在美国和墨西哥，超过三分之二的成年人超重和肥胖，而中国的这一比例约为29%，但在过去20年里，这三个国家的超重和肥胖患病率都出现了大幅上升。美国的国家安全受到影响的范围包括从经济角度--增加医疗保健问题和成本，使我们的劳动力成本达到不具竞争力的成本水平，以及从军事准备角度，即我们超重的士兵无法执行士兵所需的正常活动和职能。在墨西哥和中国，经济和医疗体系的成本是主要的担忧，与肥胖相关的医疗成本和劳动力的生产率都在对经济竞争力产生潜在的长期影响。肥胖正在对这三个国家的福利、经济以及在某些情况下的军事安全造成不利影响。
To understand how obesity affects national security by focusing on three case study countries—the United States, China, and Mexico. While in the United States and Mexico, over two-thirds of adults are overweight and obese compared to about 29% of Chinese, large increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity have occurred in all three countries in the past two decades. National security is affected in the US ranges both from an economic perspective-- increasing health care problems and costs to the point where our labor costs have reached uncompetitive cost levels, and from a military preparedness perspective, namely our overweight soldiers are unable to perform normal activities and functions required of soldiers. In both Mexico and China, it is the economic and health system costs that are dominant concerns, both the costs of obesity-related medical care and the productivity of the work force are creating potential long-term effects on economic competitiveness. Obesity is adversely affecting the welfare, economic, and in some cases military security of these three countries.