The worlds fattest countris are Polynesian: Nauru, Cook Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, and Micronesia. This is directly attributable to colonization, destruction of indigenous culture and foodways, and forced second-class citizenship.

The next fattest, in order, are Kuwait, United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, (all very rich countries), Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Egypt, and UAE. Obviously some of the latter have had their wealth pilfered through various proxy wars but Lebanon and Libya are the only ones in real trouble. Most of these nations are doing ok considering. The UAE is obscenely wealthy.

These are followed by these fat cats:

Bahamas, New Zealand, Iraq, Fiji, Bahrain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Malta, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Dominica, United Kingdom, Syria, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Oman, Tunisia, Hungary, Suriname, Lithuania, Morocco, Israel, Czech Republic, Iran, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Andorra.

So it does appear that obesity afflicts those who had everything stolen from them, as well as those who did the stealing.

It's like a beautiful Greek tragedy that only one of these countries has a for-profit medical system that bankrupts whatever citizens it doesn't kill and equally interesting that all of the economies mentioned were initially based on the capture and sale of human beings. Slavery appears to be the gift that keeps on giving.

It's almost like heart disease, diabetes and somatization disorders are the price the seventh generation pays for genocide. Epigenetics be crazy like that.

Regardless, hiring some tech bro to leverage the low hanging fruit and employ best practices to gain traction with social media consumers seems right on brand for these vultures. They'll keep moving the goalposts until we have more mass extinctions than the Permian-Triassic and make the PETM look like winter.

I believe Kuwait is one of the fattest countries on earth.

Ischemic heart disease, Low back pain, Diabetes, Depressive disorders, and Headache disorders are cited as the top causes of the most death and disability.

They are extremely wealthy.

Draw whatever conclusions you need.

Yeah they have fully subsidized healthcare in Kuwait because it's a rich protectorate of the US. They also have obscene obesity rates so their health issues are not the same. It makes sense for State-run Kuwaiti hospitals to have a social media presence to tell people to try vegetables, excercise more, take their cholesterol medication, etc

Very good points. I'm wondering if the author is from the Commonwealth. Edit, I was close, former colony.

"Anwar F. AlHussainan (Kuwait University, Kuwait), Zahraa A. Jasem (Kuwait University, Kuwait) and Dari Alhuwail (Kuwait University, Kuwait)"

They have no idea how healthcare works in the rest of the world.

This isn't science. This is some hack advocating for more administrative bloat for an industry that is bankrupting everyone they don't kill.

That costs money and there is no hospital admin willing to part with their multimillion dollar salaries

I would love that cush job. The problem is they'll hire some idiot who thinks $25/hr is a good wage and keep those of us with education and experience working in the hellish nightmare that has become bedside.

The issue is they aren't going to pay $60/hr for a nurse or twice that for a midlevel or four times that for a physician. Most of us would be perfectly happy to not be working 12 hour shifts without breaks five days a week and instead get paid to play on the internet.