Obesity problems are no longer limited to the USA as, in recent years, obesity rates in the EU countrieshave increased … existence of a negative externality connected with obesity. Several studies have investigatedthe private and social costs of … obesity, and possible interventions to reduce this pathology. Moreover, a number ofeconomic studies deals with the analysis of …

This paper reviews previous cost studies of overweight and obesity in the UK. It proposes a method for estimating the … economic and health costs of overweight and obesity in the UK which could also be used in other countries. Costs of obesity … was used to calculate the mortality and morbidity cost of overweight and obesity. Population attributable fractions for …

The high and rapidly rising adult obesity rates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are ….S. In contrast, death rates from circulator diseases have a strong negative trend, but rising obesity rates almost certainly … have slowed this trend. This paper focuses on obesity-related mortality from diabetes and circulatory diseases and …