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See Latest ArticlesObesity as a Social Problem in the United States
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 10/01/09
Smith MC – This article applies Hilgartner and Bosk’s public arenas model to examine how obesity is defined in the public arena, how competition plays a role in "framing" the obesity issue, and how operatives influence the ways in which obesity is viewed and understood. Implications for nurses and policy makers are addressed in the context of using the public arenas model as a tool to analyze the social problem of obesity.
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