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The economics of obesity

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The economics of obesity/ edited by Kristian Bolin, John Cawley.
other author:	Bolin, Kristian.
Published:	Bingley, U.K. :Emerald, : 2006.,
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 364 p.).
Subject:	Business & Economics - Economics -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0731-2199/17
ISBN:	9781849504829 (electronic bk.)

The economics of obesity
The economics of obesity[electronic resource] /edited by Kristian Bolin, John Cawley. - Bingley, U.K. :Emerald,2006. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 364 p.). - Advances in health economics and health services research,v. 170731-2199 ;. - Advances in health economics and health services research ;v. 16..

Obesity and diabetes : the roles that prices and policies play / Inas Rashad -- Advances in bariatric surgery for obesity : laparoscopic surgery / William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard, ClaudiaA. Steiner -- One pill makes you smaller : the demand for anti-obesity drugs / John Cawley, John A.Rizzo -- Obesity, employment and wages in Europe / Jaume Garcia, Climent Quintana-Domeque -- Obesity and occupational attainment among the 50+ of Europe / Petter Lundborg, Kristian Bolin, Sören Höjgard, Björn Lindgren -- Access to fast food and food prices : relationship with fruit and vegetable consumption and overweight among adolescents / Lisa M. Powell, M. Christopher Auld, Frank J. Chaloupka, Patrick M. OMalley, Lloyd D. Johnston -- Gender, body mass, and socioeconomic status : new evidence from the PSID / Dalton Conley, RebeccaGlauber -- Health insurance and the obesity externality / Jay Bhattacharya, Neeraj Sood -- Endogenous food quality and bodyweight trend / Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Thomas R. Saving -- Obesity, hospital services use and costs / Nana Bro Folmann, Kristine Skovgaard Bossen, Ingrid Willaing, Jan Sørensen, John Sahl Andersen, Steen Ladelund, Torben Jørgensen -- How much does obesity matter? Results from the 2001 Canadian Community Health Survey / William MacMinn, James McIntosh, Caroline Yung -- A behavioral model of cyclical dieting / Steven M. Suranovic, Robert S. Goldfarb -- Effects of Title IX and sports participationon girls' physical activity and weight / Robert Kaestner, Xin Xu -- Introduction to the economics of obesity / Kristian Bolin, John Cawley.

Obesity, which has increased in most developed countries in the pastfew decades, is the result of genetics, environment, and individual choices. Economics is useful for studying the individual choices that lead to obesity, explanations for the recent rise in obesity, the treatment options forobesity, and the costs and consequences of obesity for the individual and society. The papers in this volume, devoted to the economics of obesity, illustrate the wide usefulness of the economic approach. The papers in the first section propose and test economic explanations for food-consumption choices and obesity. In particular, they assess the impact of food quality, access to fast food, food prices, legislation, and other factors on diet, physical activity, and body weight. Treatments for obesity, specifically bariatric surgery and anti-obesity drugs, are studied in the second section of this volume.The third section is devoted to the labor market impacts of obesity; evidence from fifteen countries is presented and evaluated. The fourth and final sectioncalculates the impact of obesityon hospital costs and examines the externalities imposed by obesity through health insurance. Takentogether, the papers in this volume advance the frontier of knowledge about thecauses, implications, and consequences of obesity, and validate the usefulness of the economic approach for studying obesity in particular and medical conditions more generally. This book studies obesity from an economicperspective. It proposes economic explanation for food consumption choices, treatment of obesity, and treatment of the condition. It's international in scope, providing evidence from 15 countries.

ISBN: 9781849504829 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

809008
Business & Economics
--Economics

LC Class. No.: RC628 / .E26 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 616.398

Universal Decimal Class. No.: -056.257

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