Obesity Treatment
Obesity Treatment is a scholarly work, published in 1978 in ''Social Work in Health Care''. The main subjects of the publication include human obesity, social stigma of obesity, health care, psychology, health professional, social work, medicine, physiotherapy, gerontology, nursing, population, weight loss, and intervention. The paper reviews the research that reports (a) some of the physical and social considerations in treating the obese, (b) characteristics that identify overeaters and some implications for treatment, and (c) treatment settings and personnel who treat the obese.