Obesity and the poor women living in urban slum areas: health system response
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Background Obesity is one of the risk factors for non-communicable disease (NCD). The prevalence of overweight and obesity among the poor in Indonesia is increasing. Indonesia is also experiencing an epidemiological transition where the trend for causes of death is changing from infectious disease to NCD. Following previous studies on obesity among the poor, we study the risk factors for obesity in urban slum areas in order to seek for the appropriate health system solution to this matter.
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