The recently published paper entitled ‘Obesity management in Europe: current status and objectives for the future’ (Obes Facts 2016; 9: 273–283) summarizes the results of a survey on obesity management conducted in 23 member countries of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) [1] . The team of authors includes experts both in obesity management and in obesity prevention and em...

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Health care delivery today requires a fundamentally different approach— and a new breed of physician leaders who can rally around new requirements resulting from changes in health care financing, physician reporting requirements, standards for accountable care organizations, clinical process improvements and team-based care. Today, physician leaders are being measured by the results they achiev...

President: Mihail Garevski (Republic of Macedonia), e-mail: [email protected] Vice-Presidents: Martin Koller (Switzerland), e-mail: [email protected] Mauro Dolce (Italy), e-mail: [email protected] Secretary-General: Atilla Ansal (Turkey) Secretary: Andreas J. Kappos (Greece), e-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Rainer Flesch (Austria), e-mail: Rainer.Fle...

AE carried out this study while a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. We thank the Department of Health for providing us with the data on the NHS workforce. Contributors: AE planned the study, carried out the analysis, and wrote the paper and acts as guarantor. HD collected the data from the various reports and prepared them for analysis. SE initiated the idea and participated...