It is obvious from the evidence above that the childhood obesity
epidemic in the UK today is multifactorial, multilevel and
involves many agents from
health, schools and parents, as well as the leisure and hospitality industry.
Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Garrett takes on public
health: the desperate inadequacy of public -
health infrastructure in much of the developing world and the shocking neglect of that infrastructure in «developed» nations, from the relatively simple inadequacies revealed by the 1994 Ebola
epidemic in Zaire to a nuanced analysis of the issues
involved in the near - total collapse of public
health in the former USSR and the years - long underfunding and lack of respect for this key government responsibility in the U.S.