Exploring ways to respond to rising obesity and diabetes in the Caribbean using a system dynamics model

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Diabetes and obesity present a high and increasing burden of disease in the Caribbean that have failed to respond to prevention policies and interventions. These conditions are the result of a complex system of drivers and determinants that can make it difficult to predict the impact of intervention...

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Published in:	PLOS Global Public Health
Main Authors:	Leonor Guariguata, Leandro Garcia, Natasha Sobers, Trevor S. Ferguson, James Woodcock, T. Alafia Samuels, Cornelia Guell, Nigel Unwin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021196/?tool=EBI

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