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Portrayals of canine obesity in English-language newspapers and in leading veterinary journals, 2000-2009: Implications for animal welfare organizations and veterinarians as public educators
Published 2011-01-01
In industrialized societies, more than one in three dogs as well as people currently qualify as overweight or obese. Experts in public health expect both these figures to rise. While clinical treatment remains important, ...
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Owning the problem: Media portrayals of overweight dogs and the shared determinants of the health of human and companion animal populations
Published 2012-01-01
Weight-related health problems have become a common topic in Western mass media. News-coverage has also extended to overweight pets, particularly since 2003 when the U.S. National Academy of Sciences announced that obesity ...
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“It was not just a walking experience”: reflections on the role of care in dog-walking.
Published 2013-01-01
Research into physical activity and human health has recently begun to attend to dog-walking. This study extends the literature on dog-walking as a health behaviour by conceptualizing dog-walking as a caring practice. It ...
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Policies on pets for healthy cities: A conceptual framework.
Published 2015-01-01
Drawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and ...
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Habitus and Responsible Dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of 'dog-shaped' holes in people's lives.
Published 2015-04-01
Responsible dog ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability ...
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Public Health Ethics and a Status for Pets as Person-Things: Revisiting the Place of Animals in Urbanized Societies.
Published 2013-01-01
Within the field of medical ethics, discussions related to public health have mainly concentrated on issues that are closely tied to research and practice involving technologies and professional services, including ...
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What to think of canine obesity? Emerging challenges to our understanding of human-animal health relationships.
Published 2013-01-01
The coincident and increasing occurrence of weight-related health problems in humans and canines in Western societies poses a challenge to our understanding of human–animal health relationships. More specifically, the ...
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Toward stronger theory in critical public health: Insights from debates surrounding posthumanism
Published 2013-01-01
The “posthumanist turn” in critical theory comprises efforts to recognize and analyze the interdependence of human existence with non-human entities, including other animals, spaces, and technologies. Scholarship aligned ...
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Testing relationships: ethical arguments for screening with HbA1C
Published 2012-01-01
Since the 1990s, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1C) has been the gold standard for monitoring glycaemic control in people diagnosed as having either type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Discussions ...
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Public health ethics and More-than-Human solidarity
Published 2013-01-01
This article contributes to the literature on One Health and public health ethics by expanding the principle of solidarity. We conceptualize solidarity to encompass not only practices intended to assist other people, but ...
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