Objective: To determine parental willingness-to-pay (WTP) for childhood obesity prevention. Methods: Cross … general WTP and amount of WTP. Results: From 1 534 parents, 97.8% considered overweight/obesity to be serious public health … problems. A general WTP to reduce the incidence of childhood overweight/obesity by half, was declared by 48.8%. Parents of …

spending among adults with overweight and obesity aged 65 years and older. Weight loss of this magnitude is consistent with … next generation anti-obesity medications recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Methods: We follow the …-related comorbidity (overweight), and seniors with obesity having a BMI ≥ 30 and ≥ 35. We then estimate Medicare spending for this …

As obesity and being overweight continue to increase in the United States, public concern is growing about the quality …

are contributing to high rates of childhood obesity is policy relevant. However, our results provide some evidence that …

obesity on annual inpatient healthcare costs in the UK using linked data from the UK Biobank and Hospital Episode Statistics … an annual cost of £14.36 [95% CI £0.31 - £28.42] greater cost per unit increase in BMI. Modelled with a binary obesity …-obese subjects. Conclusions: The IV models provide evidence for a causal relationship between obesity and higher inpatient healthcare …

indirect mental effects of individuals. However, they have not received much attention in relation to childhood obesity …

-level grocery taxes and obesity and diabetes. Methods: We collect and assemble a novel national dataset of annual county and state … for Disease Control and Prevention on rates of obesity and diabetes and provide a nation-wide spatial characterization of … taxes on obesity and diabetes rates, also controlling for a subset of potential confounders that vary over time. Results: We …

overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from post- (T2) and follow-up (T3) measurements of a school-based health … childhood overweight and obesity by half. Longitudinal differences were examined with the McNemar test for general WTP and the …