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September 18, 2012
This chapter summarizes the literature on the relationship between obesity and medical spending, including a discussion of both per capita and aggregate annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity, and external costs funded by public sector h ...
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September 9, 2010
One approach for reversing the obesity epidemic is to use economic strategies to change the costs and benefits of behaviours related to obesity in an effort to change positively the energy-balance equation. To date, these strategies have taken the followin ...
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