He has hammered it many times since taking office last July. Prevention must be strengthened. Thus, on December 7, in collaboration with Jean-Christophe Combe, François Braun launched a mission on the prevention and management of obesity.
Today in France, 17% of adults are obese, i.e. 8 million people, specifies a communiqué of the Ministry of Health published yesterday. A chronic disease that occurs “at the crossroads of social inequalities and health inequalities” car “it affects twice as many low-income people, with the consequence in particular of difficulties in accessing care”. In addition, following the Covid crisis, “its prevalence is increasingly marked among young people, especially children”…
And at roadmap 2019-2022 for the management of obesity [qui poursuit les mesures engagées par le précédent plan Obésité 2010-2013, NDLR] laid down a framework for action to better inform and guide people with obesity, better coordinate the interventions of health professionals around them and ensure comprehensive care throughout the territory, François Braun and Jean-Christophe Combe, respectively Minister of Health and Prevention and Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled People, wished to ensure the continuity of these measures. They thus entrusted a mission to Pre Martine Laville, professor of nutrition at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, in order to propose concrete measures to better prevent and manage this pathology.
Six priority projects have been defined:
> prevention and fight against childhood obesity (identification, practice of physical activity, early management within the framework of coordinated care pathways);
> prevention and management of obesity for adults, particularly precarious patients (access to existing treatments, effectiveness of treatments, inclusion in care pathways for this pathology and others likely to occur);
> improving the management of obesity through a graduated and structured offer of care to local care services;
> development of research against obesity;
> training of professionals to meet the growing needs of the population;
> prevention and management of obesity in the Overseas Territories.
The proposals of Pre Martine Laville will be submitted to the two ministers by March 2023 “to feed the future roadmap for the prevention and management of obesity”the statement said.
Article originally published on the Concours pluripro.fr.