Ali Mesut TEMİZER, Abdullah Çetin YİĞİT
Demiroğlu Bilim Üniversitesi Florence Nightingale Tıp Dergisi - 2026;12(2):117-130
Objectives: This systematic review aims to synthesize international and national literature on obesity through a health management and governance lens, reframing obesity from an individual behavioral issue into a complex, system-level health system challenge. Materials and methods: This study is a systematic review conducted between June 2026 and July 2026 and reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Results: Searches of Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed, with national sources, were screened against predefined criteria; 75 sources were charted. Prevalence is rising across age and income levels, the obesogenic environment and inequalities shape its distribution, and direct and indirect costs burden budgets. Conclusion: The review indicates that obesity care should be redesigned as an integrated service chain around the chronic care model, that policy mixes combining fiscal measures with labeling and school-based interventions should be adopted, that digital tools should complement rather than replace care, and that weight stigma should be addressed as a structural barrier. For Türkiye, an agenda converting the epidemiological base into evaluated policy follows.
