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The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany
Meng, Fan; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-10
Background Previous literature documents the direct and indirect economic costs of obesity, yet none has attempted to quantify the intangible costs of obesity. This study focuses on quantifying the intangible costs of one unit body mass index (BMI) increase and being overweight and obese in...
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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care … term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …-kindergarten-age on weight problems and gross motor skills of children aged five to nine. This dataset has the advantage to provide …
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Parents’ willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity
Kesztyüs, Dorothea; Lauer, Romy; Schreiber, Anja C.; … - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 20, pp. 1-8
included anthropometric measurements of children and self-administered questionnaires for parents, including WTP assessment … overweight/obese children showed with 61.4%, significantly more frequently, their general WTP than the others with 47.2% (p = 0 ….001). Mean WTP was €23.04 (99% confidence interval (CI) [22.45; 23.75]) per month. Parents of centrally obese children showed …
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Health burden and costs of obesity and overweight in Germany : an update
Lehnert, Thomas; Streltchenia, Pawel; Konnopka, Alexander; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 9, pp. 957-967
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
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The costs and consequences of obesity in Germany : a new approach from a prevalence and life-cycle perspective
Effertz, Tobias; Engel, Susanne; Verheyen, Frank; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 17 (2016) 9, pp. 1141-1158
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Food-Related Lifestyles and Their Association to Obesity in Five European Countries
Perez-Cueto, Federico; Verbeke, Wim; de Barcellos, … - 2014
This paper’s objective is to investigate the associations between obesity and Food-Related Lifestyles (FRL) in five European countries. A cross-sectional web-based survey was carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece and Poland, January 2008, with quota samples on gender (male, female),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197213
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715829
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Health behaviour and health assessment : evidence from German microdata
Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - In: Economics research international (2012), pp. 1-13
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