Prevalence and Incidence of Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Countries

Eating disorders, risk and management: a personal journey and a South African and African perspective

“…The most recent contribution (a chapter) related to an area of work that spoke to my research and consequent data/ publications i.e. documenting the emergence of eating disorders amongst black, female South Africans with the subsequent community based work to determine risk (Szabo, 2015) . Specifically the chapter related to eating disorders in so called underrepresented countries with the content covering not only Africa but also South America, Asia and the Middle East and providing a comprehensive analysis of what has emerged in these regions.…”

“…More specifically, whilst I will provide a specific focus on my work in the field of eating disorders within a South African and African setting it should be noted that reference -in the current paper -is made to related work from within the South African and African settings as well as internationally, that had direct reference to this work, as context. However, comprehensive reviews of eating disorders in Africa have been provided in both a book on eating disorders -written by myself -in 2009 (Szabo, 2009) as well as chapters in books in 2011 and 2015 (Szabo, 2015) with the 2011 book on African Psychiatry coedited by myself together with David Ndetei. Collectively these published works comprehensively detailed all published work related to eating disorders in Africa -that was available at the times of publication -which is beyond the focus of the current paper.…”