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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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Main Authors:	Leonor Guariguata (Author), Leandro Garcia (Author), Natasha Sobers (Author), Trevor S Ferguson (Author), James Woodcock (Author), T Alafia Samuels (Author), Cornelia Guell (Author), Nigel Unwin (Author)
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Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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